Bartholomeus Molenaer
Peasants playing kolf
Bartholomeus Molenaer (1618 – 1650) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem. According to the RKD he was the brother of the painters Nicolaes and Jan Miense Molenaer.[1] He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1640.[1] He was a genre painter who painted many peasants in interiors, often with a shadow in the lower left of the painting.[1]
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