Adriaen van Nieulandt

Adriaen van Nieulandt (1586 or 1587, Antwerp - buried 7 July 1658, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver of Flemish descent.

[1] His father was a merchant dealing in quills as was his grandfather who was also admitted as a master of the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp in 1573.

[4] The van Nielandt family moved to Amsterdam in 1589, after the Fall of Antwerp, possibly because they were Protestants or simply for economic reasons, as the art market in the Northern Netherlands was doing very well at the time.

[5] Another brother called Jacob van Nieulandt was born in 1593/94 in Amsterdam where he became an art dealer, painter, innkeeper and draftsperson.

He attained quite a reputation early in his career and was given a commission by Danish king Christian IV for 23 paintings on copper plates with New Testament subjects.