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Hendrick de Keyser
Hendrick de Keyser (15 May 1565 – 15 May 1621) was a Dutch sculptor and architect born in Utrecht, Netherlands, who was instrumental in establishing a late Renaissance form of Mannerism in Amsterdam. He was the father of Thomas de Keyser who was an architect and portrait painter.
Biography and works.
As a young man the Utrecht-born artist Hendrick de Keyser was apprenticed to master Cornelis Bloemaert the elder. At the age of 26 he followed Bloemaert to Amsterdam. Soon he set to
's tomb depicts the Battle of Scheveningen.
Biography.
Willem de Keyser was a son of the prominent Amsterdam architect Hendrick de Keyser. He was the brother of architect Pieter de Keyser (1595–1676), sculptor Hendrick de Keyser II (the Younger; 1613–1665), and painter Thomas de Keyser (c. 1596–1667).
Around 1623 he left Amsterdam to settle in London, where he found employment with his brother-in-law, the English architect Nicholas Stone, who had married Willem's sister Maria. Stone