Painting ID:: 4973
The Tomb of William the Silent in an Imaginary Church 1620
Oil on canvas, 112 x 151 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
BASSEN, Bartholomeus van Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1590-1652
Dutch painter and architect. He was the grandson of Bartolt Ernst van Bassen from Arnhem, who was Clerk of the Court of Holland in The Hague. In 1613 van Bassen was admitted to the Guild of St Luke in Delft, having come from outside the city. In 1622 he became a member of the Guild in The Hague where he was also municipal architect from 1638 until his death. He married in 1624; his son Aernoudt married a daughter of Cornelis van Poelenburch. The Tomb of William the Silent in an Imaginary Church 1620
Oil on canvas, 112 x 151 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
