Dirck van der Lisse (1607-1669)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• Van der Lisse was born in The Hague.
• He learned to paint from Cornelis van Poelenburch.
• He lived in Utrecht from 1626, alternating between Utrecht and The Hague between 1635 and 1640.
• He married Petronella van der Hove in 1639 in the Hague, and in 1640 he moved to Utrecht.
• In 1642 he moved to Amsterdam, the same year his second son was born.
• In 1644 he became a member of the Hague painter's guild.
• In in 1656, he became a city magistrate and helped form the Confrerie Pictura.
• In 1659-1669 he was mayor of the Hague.
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