Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was born in Amsterdam on 16 March 1585, into a well-off bourgeois family, and lived all his life in that city. A pupil of the Antwerp painter François Badens, he left no known painting, and earned his living as a collector of the beer excise. A member in 1611 of the chamber of rhetoric D'Eglentier, a friend of Hooft and Samuel Coster, he became in 1613 an ensign of the civic guard and in 1617 followed Coster to the Dutch Academy that the latter had just founded. He remained unmarried and died suddenly on 23 August 1618, aged thirty-three; the cause of his death remains uncertain.

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