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Haecht, Willem van, 1593-1637

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Personal name headingHaecht, Willem van, 1593-1637
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Variant(s)Van Haecht, Willem, 1593-1637
Special noteDo not confuse with the psalmist: Haagt, Willem van, 1527-1583 [LCCN: no2003108309]
Found inOCLC #84313198: Willem van Haecht II, 1920- (hdg.: Haecht, Willem van, 1593-1637; usage: Willem van Haecht)
ArtHistoryReference Website, April 7, 2010: Willem van Haecht (1593-1637) p. (Flemish painter. He was the son of the landscape painter Tobias Verhaecht, the first teacher of Rubens. Willem grew up in a cultivated milieu of art and humanism and was taught to paint by his father. In 1615 he went to Paris, where he stayed until 1619; thereafter he travelled to Italy and in 1626-27 returned to Antwerp, where he became a master in the city s Guild of St Luke. By 1628 he was employed by the patron, collector and amateur Cornelis van der Geest as curator of his collection, a post he held until his death)