5 facts about Mattheus Verheyden

Mattheus Verheyden (1700–1776) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Verheyden was born in Breda. According to the RKD he was the son of the painter Franck Pietersz Verheyden who died in the past he could teach him to paint, though in reality his earliest deed was painted at age 17. He was a pupil of Hendrik Carré II, Constantijn Netscher, Carel de Moor, and Augustinus Terwesten II and was a fanatic of the Confrerie Pictura until 1762.

According to Johan van Gool Verheyden’s mother died later he was two, leaving his dad with seven children, of whom Mattheus was the youngest. Though his daddy remarried, Mattheus became a ward of the city of Breda taking into consideration his daddy died in 1711. The city orphanage regents sent him to The Hague, where he took lessons for a year from Hendrik Carré, and where he studied afterward and copied the works of Carel de Moor, and Augustinus Terwesten II (and the works of their fathers that they gave him). In 1722 he granted to make a vacation to England, but stopped in Amsterdam first, where he painted several portraits. He later travelled to Breda to paint the regents who had helped him and to accept his inheritance money as soon as which he was to travel. He made many portraits of the leading citizens of Breda and fell in love with a woman there whom he married otherwise of making his trip; Margareta Kraeimes. He kept a list of everything the people he painted and Van Gool published a large selection of these names in his biographical sketch. He died in The Hague.

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