Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetBastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw
Dutch Golden Age painter
Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1624
Place of Birth: Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
Date of Death: 20-Dec-1680
Profession: painter
Nationality: Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw
- Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw (11 January 1624 – 20 December 1680]) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. According to Houbraken he was the father of Govert van der Leeuw.
- He was born at Dordrecht where he became a pupil of Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp.
- He did well as a painter of live animals such as cows and sheep, but he gave up painting and he became a collector of the excise duties on beer, living at Dordrecht till his death.According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painter Jacob Gerritsz.
- Cuyp in 1638 and became the father of the artists Govert and Pieter van der Leeuw.
- He died, aged 56, in his home city of Dordrecht.
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