Johannes Spilberg (1619 – 1690)

• Was a German Baroque painter.
• Spilberg was active in Amsterdam during the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.
• Spilberg was born and died in Düsseldorf.
• He learned to paint from his father, who painted in oils and on glass, who then sent him to Antwerp, to learn under Rubens.
• While underway, he heard that Rubens had died, so he settled in Amsterdam and became apprentice to Govert Flink, for seven years.
• He won a commission for a schutterstuk from the Burgomasters of Amsterdam that still hangs in Amsterdam.
• In Amsterdam he married Marrite Gerrits in 1649.
• He worked for years as family portrait painter for Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine.
• His uncle Gabriel was court painter for Charles II of Spain.
• He taught his daughter Adriana to paint.
• After Spilberg's death, she married his successor in Düsseldorf, Eglon van der Neer in December 1697.
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