Quirijn van Brekelenkam

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Quirijn van Brekelenkam, The Tailor's Workshop, 1661.
Quirijn van Brekelenkam, The Tailor's Workshop, 1661.

Quirijn van Brekelenkam, also Quiringh (1622–c. 1669), 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.

[edit] 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.