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Adriaen Thomasz Key

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Portrait of William the Silent, 1580
Louis, Count of Nassau, from 1570 until 1574

Adriaen Thomasz Key (c. 1544, Antwerp – c. 1599, Antwerp), was a Flemish Renaissance portrait painter.

Biography

Little is known of his life. According to the Rijksmuseum, he was a pupil of his (distant) relative Willem Key.[1] According to the RKD he became a vrijmeester, or master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1568.[2]

References

  1. ^ Adriaen Thomasz Key at the Rijksmuseum
  2. ^ Adriaen Thomasz Key in the RKD