Roelof Koets (Zwolle)
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Roelof Koets, or Coets (1655–1725), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Biography[]
He was born in Zwolle as the son of and is known as a portrait painter and the teacher of the miniature painter , the husband of Henriëtta van Pee.[1] According to his biographer Johan van Gool, he had been a pupil of Gerard ter Borch and painted upwards of 5000 portraits of various gentry in Friesland and Overijssel, including portraits of the family of Hendrik Casimir.[2] Though sometimes still life paintings are attributed to him, most of these are by an earlier Roelof Koets, who could possibly have been his descendant. He died in Zwolle.
References[]
- ^ Roelof Koets (II) in the RKD
- ^ Biography of Roelof Koets in Johan van Gool's "De nieuwe Schouburg der Nederlantsche Kunstschilders en Schilderessen"
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- 1655 births
- 1725 deaths
- 18th-century Dutch painters
- Dutch male painters
- People from Zwolle
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