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Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 – 1662)

• Was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits, as well as a miniaturist.
• Van de Venne was born in Delft.
• According to Houbraken he learned Latin in Leiden.
• He learned to paint from the master goldsmith and painter Simon de Valk, and afterwards learned engraving from Jeronimus van Diest, a good painter of grisailles.
• Van de Venne also worked as a book illustrator and print designer.
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