Nicolaas Verkolje was a Dutch Golden Age

Dutch Golden Age

The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...

 painter and mezzotint maker.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was the son of Jan Verkolje and the only one of 5 children to carry on his art. Houbraken intended to write a biographical sketch of Nicolaas in his birth year of 1673, but never got that far (he died before publication of Volume III, which contains Jan Verkolje's biographical sketch).

According to the RKD both he and his brother Jan II became painters, having learned painting from their father. Nicolaas became the teacher of Arnout Bentinck, Jan Matthias Kok, Jan Maurits Quinkhard

Jan Maurits Quinkhard

Jan Maurits Quinkhard was an 18th-century painter and print designer from the Northern Netherlands.-Biography:...

, and Arnout Rentinck.

Nicolaes Verkolje made a portrait of Gabriel Metsu

Gabriel Metsu

Gabriël Metsu was a Dutch painter of history paintings, genre works and portraits.- Life :Metsu was the son of the Flemish painter Jacques Metsu , who lived most of his days at Leiden, and Jacomijntje Garniers, his third wife, whom he married in 1625. Jacomijntje was the widow of a painter with...

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