Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh (c. 1610 – 1670),
• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• Born in Rotterdam.
• Sorgh became a pupil of David Teniers the Younger and Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech.
• Sorgh painted mostly interiors with peasants.
• His kitchen interiors feature elaborate still lifes.
• He also painted market scenes, portraits, and marine and historical scenes.
• He married Adriaantje Hollaer on 20 February 1633.
• She became famous in 1947 because of her marriage portrait which had been painted by Rembrandt and was pictured on the Dutch 100-guilder banknote, printed from 1947 - 1950.
• Through her sister, he was brother-in-law to his friend the painter Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn.
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