Abraham Staphorst

Abraham Staphorst, or Staphortius (ca. 1638, Edam – 1696, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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Biography

According to Houbraken he was a good portrait painter and the son of Johannes Staphortius, a well known preacher of Dordrecht, whose portrait he often sketched with chalk or charcoal on the walls of the taverns he visited with the remark, "Do you want to see my father?".[1]

According to the RKD he moved to Dordrecht in 1643. [2] He visited Rome as a young man, and worked in London, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Norwich before settling in Dordrecht.[2]

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


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