11 Works, Today, January 25th. is artist Govert Teuniszoon Flinck’s day, his story, illustrated #025
Jan 25, 2021
Detail; Civic guardsmen of the company of captain Joan Huydecoper and lieutenant Frans van Waveren, c. 1648
265 x 513 cm
Oil on canvas
Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 1615–2 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
Born at Kleve, capital of the Duchy of Cleves, which was occupied at the time by the United Provinces, he was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer, but having secretly acquired a passion for etching and drawing, was sent to Leeuwarden, where he boarded in the house of Lambert Jacobszoon, a Mennonite, a radical reform movement of the 16th-century Reformation…