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Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch (1629-1684)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• De Hooch is famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.
• He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, with whom his work shares themes and style.
• De Hooch was married in Delft in 1654 to Jannetje van der Burch, by whom he fathered seven children.
• While in Delft, de Hooch is also believed to have learned from the painters Carel Fabritius and Nicolaes Maes.
• He became a member of the painters' guild of Saint Luke in 1655 (two years after Vermeer).
• The displayed painting is a crop from  Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, A Dutch Courtyard, 1660.
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