Egbert Van Heemskerck

Egbert van Heemskerck, or Egbert Jaspersz van Heemskerk (1634 – 1704) was a Haarlem Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works who died in London in 1704. He is often confused with another genre painter also called Egbert van Heemskerck who lived (ca.1676 – 1744).

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