Abraham Jansz. Begeyn (c. 1637 – 1697),

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• Begeyn was born in Leinden.
• He was first accepted into the Guild of St. Luke in Leiden in 1655.
• He is registered in Rome and Naples from 1659–1660.

• In the rampjaar or disaster year, of 1672, he is registered in Amsterdam, and after that he lived in London.

• In London he painted at Ham House, Surrey, together with Willem van de Velde the Younger and Dirck van Bergen.

• In 1681 he was in the Hague where two years later he became a member of the painters' confraternity 'Pictura'.

• He moved to Berlin in 1688, where he became Prussian court painter.

• According to Houbraken, he was principal painter to Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, afterwards king of Prussia.

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