Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw
Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw (11 January 1624 – 20 December 1680]) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
According to Houbraken he was the father of
Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp.[1] He did well as a painter of live animals such as cows and sheep, but he gave up painting and he became a collector of the excise duties on beer, living at Dordrecht till his death.[1]
According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painter Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp in 1638 and became the father of the artists Govert and Pieter van der Leeuw.[2] He died, aged 56, in his home city of Dordrecht. [2]
References
- ^ Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ RKD
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