Abraham de Heusch

Abraham de Heusch (1635, Utrecht – April 30, 1712, Leerdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he painted all sorts of plants, salamanders, snakes and other animals in small chapels and ruins in a natural manner.[1] He married in Dordrecht, and when his wife died he joined the navy.[1] He then remarried and returned to Leerdam where he lived off rents and died the mayor of that town.[1]

According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painter Christiaen Striep in Amsterdam, and worked in Dordrecht and with the Dutch navy before moving to Leerdam.[2] No known works survive.

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

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