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Dutch Golden Age painter
Portrait of Increase Mather, 1688

Joan van der Spriet (c. 1660, Delft – c. 1690, London), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he grew up in the Delft orphanage and became a pupil of Johannes Verkolje. He was a good portrait painter who moved to England and after marrying there, settled there.

According to the RKD he was also a printmaker, but no known works survive.

References

  1. (in Dutch) Joan van der Spriet Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. Joan van der Spriet in the RKD
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