Dutch painter of religious works and genre scenes. After training in Utrecht with Moreelse, he went [c. 1612] to Rome, where his style became strongly influenced by Caravaggio. He returned to the Netherlands in about 1621 and although he died only a few years after this he played a leading role, with Honthorst and Terbrugghen, in establishing Utrecht as a stronghold of the Caravaggesque style. His best known work is The Procuress [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1622]. This picture is seen in the background of two paintings by Vermeer, whose mother-in-law apparently owned it.
[Chilvers, Ian, Harold Osborne, and Dennis Farr, eds. Oxford Dictionary Of Art. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.]
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