
Hendrick GoltziusNederland, 1558–1617Mag men het zien?
Amsterdam, Nederland
De eigenaar is bekend. Of het vandaag te zien is, zegt het museum niet, en gissen hebben wij niet geleerd.
c. 1600
Abandoning engraving for painting
Around 1600, partial paralysis of his right hand (maimed in childhood in a fall onto burning coals) forced Goltzius to give up engraving and turn to painting; he handed over his print publishing to his stepson Jacob Matham. About fifty surviving paintings are attributed to him.
1603–1605
Pupil: Jan van den Bergh
1616
Declining health
By 1616 the artist's health had deteriorated; on 1 January of the following year he died in Haarlem at the age of 58.
1 januari 1617
Died