Govert van der Leeuw

Gabriel, or Govert van der Leeuw (1645–1688), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

[1] As a young man he traveled to Amsterdam, where he married the sister of David van der Plas.

[1] He painted landscapes in the manner of Johann Heinrich Roos and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.

[1] He was planning another journey south, and had stopped to see his mother in Dordrecht on the way, when he unexpectedly died.

[1] According to the RKD, he was registered in the Amsterdam workshop of his cousin, the painter Nicolaes Pietersz.