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Note: widow of Vechtor Vechterzoon Cuyper, also a glass worker. Douw became Burgess (Mayor) of Leyden in 1615 and also head of the glassmakers guild. He had many apprentices and at his death had many houses in the Kort Rappenburg part of Leyden, east side; full name Douw Janszoon deVries VanArentsvelt which means Douw s/o Jans of Vries from Arents Field; Douw's second son was Gerard Douw (also known as Gerrit Dou), a popular Dutch genre and portrait painter of Leiden. Gerard was apprenticed to an engraver and worked from 1628 to 1631 in the studio of the young Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Although he occasionally borrowed Rembrandt's themes, he was more detailed and meticulous in his execution. His scenes of domestic, middle-class life were tremendously popular and often imitated. Among his most famous works are Evening Light (Rijks Museum), Young Man (The Hague), The Cook (Louvre), and a self-portrait (Metropolitan Museum). He was the founder of the school known as the Fijnschilders ('fine painters') whose influence lasted into the nineteenth century. His whole life was spent in Leiden, where he owned four houses. Gerrit Dou never married and had the reputation of being obsessively neat and detail-oriented. He died in Leiden in 1675 and was buried in the St. Pieters Kerk on 9 February of the same year. [R035] Amsterdam Records of the Fonda Family; [R074a] The Mayflower Descendant >> www.fonda.org <<
Note: b. Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands; d. Leiden, Friesland, Netherlands; was a master glazier (glassware merchant) who settled in Leyden soon after 1600; where he met and m. Maria Janse, dau. of Jans of Wassenaer, from Roozenberg,
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