Dirck van Delen (c. 1605–1671)

• Was a Dutch painter.
• Dirck van Delen specialized exclusively in architectural paintings, principally depicting palace perspectives and church interiors.
• Van Delen was born in Heusden.
• It is not clear with whom he apprenticed. 

• Art historian have proposed both Frans Hals and Hendrick Aerts as his presumed masters.

• Shortly after he was born, his parents moved to Breda.

• He married in Middelburg in 1625.

• In 1626 he moved to Zeeland and became master of the toll house in Arnemuiden.

• From that year until his death he was registered in Arnemuiden where he sat on the town council, most of the time as burgomaster.

• He was a member of the Middelburg Guild of St. Luke from 1639-1665. 

• In 1666 he gave to the Antwerp Chamber of rhetoric Olyftack a painting, which he had made in collaboration with the painter Theodoor Boeyermans. 

• His pupils included Daniël de Blieck and Hans Jurriaensz. van Baden.

• He was widowed three times and had at least one son.

• Van Delen is believed to have collaborated with the Antwerp painter Gonzales Coques, who painted the staffage, on the painting Interior with figures before a picture collection.

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