Caspar netscher biography of rory

According to Houbraken, Caspar Netscher was born around 1639.

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His parents were the sculptor Johann Netscher (d. 1639) from Stuttgart and Elizabeth Vetter, daughter of a Heidelberg burgermeister.¹ Johan’s father is said to have worked at the court in Heidelberg and Prague.

Johann died shortly before Caspar’s birth. His widow, fearing the dangers of the Thirty Years’ War that was then still raging, fled the region and after many peregrinations finally settled with her children in Arnhem.

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She died soon thereafter, and Arnold Tulleken, the local doctor, took Caspar in. Tulleken initially gave the boy a medical education, but when Caspar displayed a propensity for drawing, Tulleken apprenticed him to the Arnhem painter Hendrik Coster (ca.

1620–64).²

Thanks to the mediation of “Wynant Everwyn, who was a cousin of Ter Borch,” Netscher entered the workshop of Gerard ter Borch (1617–81) in Deventer around 1655.³ Here he recei