Quirijn or Quiringh Gerritsz van Brekelenkam (1622/29, Zwammerdam – 1669/79, Leiden)[1] was a Dutch Baroque genre painter. He probably studied under Gerard Dou, and as a result his paintings from the 1640s and 1650s are similar to those of the Leiden fijnschilders.
References
- Elizabeth Alice Honig, "Brekelenkam, Quiringh [Quirijn] (Gerritsz.) van," in Jane Shoaf Turner (ed.), From Rembrandt to Vermeer: 17th-Century Dutch Artists, The Grove dictionary of art. New York: St. Martin's Press (2000): 59–60.
External links
Media related to Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam at Wikimedia Commons
- Works and literature on Quirijn van Brekelenkam
- Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Quirijn van Brekelenkam