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Gerrit Dou (1613-1675)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He studied drawing under Bartholomeus Dolendo, and then trained in the stained-glass workshop of Pieter Couwenhorn.
• In February 1628, at the age of fourteen, his father sent him to study painting in the studio of Rembrandt, who lived nearby.
• With Rembrandt he remained for about three years. 
• His pictures were always small in size.
• More than 200 are attributed to him.
• Dou died in Leiden.
• His most noted pupils were Frans van Mieris the Elder and Gabriël Metsu.
• He also taught Bartholomeus Maton, Carel de Moor, Matthijs Naiveu, Abraham de Pape, Godfried Schalcken, Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt, Domenicus van Tol, Gijsbert Andriesz Verbrugge, and Pieter Hermansz Verelst.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Old Woman at the Window, ca. 1660-65.
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