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Willem de Keyser (architect)

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On 20 February 1653 he was dismissed from his post as city mason on charges of fraud. De Keyser was alleged to have altered invoices and paid salaries to persons who were not actually employed. Van Campen nevertheless requested his services as a sculptor for the monumental tomb of
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In 1658 he declared bankruptcy and left again for England. He was still living in England in 1674, but married in the Hague. He must have returned to Amsterdam not long thereafter, as he was working in 1678 on a monumental tomb for
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Drs. Minne Dijkstra, "Poortjes van Amsterdam 1571 – 1782: Een inventarisatie van historische poortjes in het Centrum van de stad", juni 2008 (bijgewerkt mei 2009)
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Around 1623 he left Amsterdam to settle in London, where he found employment with his brother-in-law, the English architect
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in the Nieuwe Kerk, over which he brought a case to court in 1680. It is not known when and where he died.
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P.C. Molhuysen en P.J. Blok, "Keyser, Willem Hendrikszoon de", in P.C. Molhuysen en P.J. Blok (red.),
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in designing and building Amsterdam's grand new town hall (now the
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On 13 August 1640 he was accepted as a master into the Amsterdam
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Willem de Keyser was a son of the prominent Amsterdam architect
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Index


Crackstate
Heerenveen

Oudezijds Huiszittenhuis
Dutch Golden Age
Amsterdam
Oudezijds Huiszittenhuis
Crackstate
Heerenveen
rijksmonument
reliefs
Royal Palace
Maarten Tromp
Michiel de Ruyter
Jan van Galen
Battle of Scheveningen
Hendrick de Keyser
Pieter de Keyser
Hendrick de Keyser II
Thomas de Keyser
Nicholas Stone
Inigo Jones
Charles I of England
masons'
guild
Jacob van Campen
Royal Palace
spire
Nieuwe Kerk

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