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Lisa Duffy Zeballos, PhD

Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2008;10(1):72-73.

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Although his name is often unfamiliar to those outside the field of Spanish painting, Juan Van der Hamen y León was one of the greatest still-life painters of the Golden Age. Van der Hamen was born into a noble Flemish family in Madrid, Spain, where he was baptized in 1596. His father was appointed to the post of royal archer at the court of King Philip III; he served as a member of the king's ceremonial royal guard, a position he later passed on to his younger son, Juan. The elder son, Lorenzo, became a priest and was renowned as a theologian and intimate friend of some of the greatest literary figures of the 17th century. Doubtless these well-placed connections played a role in bringing the works of the young Van der Hamen to the notice of the court; in 1619 he received the first of . . . [Full Text of this Article]