Isaac Isaacsz (1598 - 1649)

• Was a Dutch Painter.
• Born in Amsterdam in 1598.
• Isaac Isaacsz was a son of the painter Pieter Isaacsz, from whom he received his training.
• He is recorded in Munich in 1620.
• In 1622, he became a member of the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp and obtained a pass permitting the tax-free importation of his paintings into Denmark.
• He is first recorded again in Amsterdam in 1624.
• In the same year, he agreed to compensate Clara Becx 200 guilders for her ‘defloratie’ and agreed to pay a further 100 guilders annually for the maintenance of the child this union brought forth.
• The couple were to marry three years later.
• Isaac Isaacsz was buried in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam on 3 July 1649.
• The bulk of Isaacsz’s extant oeuvre consists of history paintings.

• In 1635, a certain Adriaen Carman began his training with him. 

• Like his father before him, Isaac Isaacsz appears to have enjoyed the patronage of the Danish court.

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