Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 – 1673)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
• According to Houbraken, whose comments were based on the Gouda stories by Ignatius Walvis, he was an excellent flower painter born in Leiden, but his parentage was from Gouda.
• He spent many years at the court of Brandenburg working for Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg.
• He moved to Gouda to marry a third time with a nasty wife from Groningen who drove him to his grave.
• According to the RKD he was a flower painter who spent the years 1664-1670 at the court of Brandenburg.
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