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Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw 
Summary
Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw (11 January 1624 – 20 December 1680]) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
According to Houbraken he was the father of Govert van der Leeuw.[1] He was born at Dordrecht where he became a pupil of Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp.[1] He did well as a painter of live animals such as cows and sheep, but he gave up painting and he became a collector of the excise duties on beer, living at Dordrecht till his death.[1]
According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painter Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp in 1638 and became the father of the artists Govert and Pieter van der Leeuw.[2] He died, aged 56, in his home city of Dordrecht. [2]
References edit
- ^ a b c (in Dutch) Bastiaan Govertz vander Leeuw in his son Govert's Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ a b Bastiaan Govertsz. van der Leeuw in the RKD