Richard Brakenburgh (1650–1702)

• Brakenburg was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• According to Arnold Houbraken he was a light-hearted poet from Haarlem.

• He was the pupil of Hendrik Mommers who went on to paint clever genre scenes.

• According to the RKD he is registered in Leeuwarden during the years 1670–1687.

• The Vienna Gallery has two 'Peasant Scenes' by him, said to have been painted in 1690; the Berlin Museum one, and the Amsterdam Gallery one.

• In Windsor Castle are two good 'Artists' Studios ' by him. 

• He also sometimes practised the art of engraving.

• He was the teacher of Wigerus Vitringa, Abraham Pardanus, and Gillis de Winter. 

• He died at Haarlem in December 1702 and was buried in January 1703.

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