The Feast of Esther by Johannes Spilberg

Johannes Spilberg

1619 - 1690

Düsseldorf, Germany

Spilberg was born and died in Düsseldorf. He learned to paint from his father, who painted in oils and on glass, who then sent him to Antwerp, to learn under Rubens. While underway, he heard that Rubens had died, so he settled in Amsterdam and became apprentice to Govert Flink, a student of Rembrandt, for seven years. He won a commission for a schutterstuk from the Burgomasters of Amsterdam that still hangs in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam he married Marrite Gerrits in 1649.