Gerrit de Wet

Gerrit de Wet (1616, Amsterdam? – 1674, Leiden[1]), sometimes called De Wett, Düwett, De Weth, or De Weet, was a Dutch painter.

The Adoration of the Golden Calf
Finding of Moses in the Nile, 1650, now in the Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder museum

He was a scholar of Rembrandt, whose manner he imitated; he also painted landscapes, and was accounted a good colourist. From 1643 to 1662 he was active in Haarlem.[1] The Copenhagen Gallery has his painting Jephthah's Daughter.

Notes
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References
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Düwett, Gerrit". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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