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Godfried Schalcken (1643 - 1706)

• Was a Dutch genre and portrait painter.
• Schalcke studied under Samuel van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht.
• After he moved to Leiden, into the studio of Gerard Dou, one of Rembrandt's most famous pupils.
• He worked in Leiden until c. 1675, then returning to Dordrecht until 1691, after which he settled in The Hague.
• in The Haque he continued to paint until his death, near age 63.
• He visited England (1692–1697), but his uncouth manners and bad temper alienated him from the society there.
• In 1703 he was employed by Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf.
• He died in The Hague.
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