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in Haarlem in 1604, most young Haarlem painters wanted to see the Italian paintings in real life, and it became a common rite of passage, but not without dangers. Van der Vinne endured many hardships on his journey, including being kidnapped for a short period. He even stopped making sketches of the
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By the time he became a widower, Van der Vinne was an established painter in Haarlem and had served on the board of the St Luke's guild in 1661 and 1662. In their archives is a list in his hand of 173 painters he considered competent. This list was edited by his son Laurens in 1702 with 157 'd's to
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He finally returned to Haarlem in 1655 and married Anneke Jansdr de Gaver in 1656, a widow with two small children. It was at this time that his portrait was painted by Frans Hals, probably as half of a pair of wedding portraits. When she died in 1668, he was left with four young children;
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Gierstraat 50, Haarlem. A commemorative plaque reads that Vincent van der Vinne lived in this house with his first wife in 1663 and this is where their son Isaac was born in 1665. Another Vincent van der Vinne, a flower bulb merchant, lived here in
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were accustomed to travelling. Cornelis Bega, who spoke no French at all, returned home, but Van der Vinne and Boelen stayed in Geneva for 15 months. The next spring they traveled further south to Lyon and spent some months in
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Helmer J. Helmers. The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1639-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015: pp 142-147
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Van der Vinne's diaries, which he embellished on his return, were never published in his lifetime, but were used by Houbraken for his great work on Dutch painters, the
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industry, van der Vinne quickly took to painting, and would take on any painting job no matter how small. According to Houbraken, this led to an oft-quoted comment by
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In 1668 he remarried, to Catalijntje Boeckaert, with whom he had four more children who died in infancy. In 1676 he became a member of the fire department (
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he sent an army and on 24 April, at 4 a.m., the signal was given for a general massacre so brutal, that it aroused indignation throughout Europe.
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countryside at one point, because he feared to be mistaken for a military surveyor. Judging from a map of his travels, he seemed daunted by the
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to attend Mass or remove to the upper valleys, giving them twenty days in which to sell their lands. In the name of his father, the
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Dagelijckse aantekeninge, by Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne, with an introduction by Bert Sliggers Jr., Haarlem, 1979
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The purpose of a grand tour in those days was Italy, but van der Vinne never made it there. Since
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indicate which of these artists had died before his father, and added to his
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and were taken prisoner by a group of farmers. The leader of these farmers,
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Van der Vinne was born, lived and worked in Haarlem and was a student of
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De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen
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Though he started as a weaver working in Haarlem's famous white linen
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De archiefbescheiden van het St. Lukasgilde te Haarlem 1497-1798
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Vincent van der Vinne's Grand Tour through Europe shown in red.
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for nine months in 1647. In 1649 he became a member of the
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Haarlem
Nederland
Painting
weaving
Baroque

Dutch
Mennonite
Frans Hals
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Grand Tour
Germany
Switzerland
France
Dirck Helmbreker
Cornelis Bega
Guillam Dubois
Karel van Mander
Schilder-boeck
Alps
Turin
Germany
Switzerland
Swiss peasant war of 1653
Basel
Bern
Niklaus Leuenberger
Geneva
Burgundian

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