Gerrit Van Battem

Plaats: Rotterdam

Geboren: 1636

Dood: 1684

Biografie:

Gerrit Battem or Gerard van Battum (ca. 1636 - October 24, 1684 (buried)) was a superior Dutch landscape painter. Houbraken mentions drawings by Battem in the house of his patron Jonas van Witsen of Amsterdam, who bought them for 1300 guilders along with colored drawings by Adriaen van Ostade in the 1670s According to the RKD, he was the son of the...