Claes van Beresteyn [SEP] place of birth
Claes van Beresteyn
Claes van Beresteyn (1627–1684), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who founded a hofje in his hometown of Haarlem.
Biography.
He was born in Haarlem as the youngest of 6 children of the lawyer Paulus van Beresteyn and his third wife Catharina van der Eem. His portrait as a child was added to the family portrait in a long swathe of canvas on the right hand side. This canvas was later sold in the 19th century to the Louvre as a Frans Hals painting, though
in the Beresteyn family portrait, which includes their daughter Emerantia and son Claes.
All of these portraits hung in the Hofje van Beresteyn thanks to their son Claes who founded it.