Adriaen van Ostade
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About
Dutch Golden Age artist whose best-known paintings included "Peasants in a Tavern" from 1635 and "Cutting the Feather" from 1660.
Before Fame
He grew up in Haarlem and began studying under the painter Frans Hals in 1627.
Trivia
He may have produced as many as 900 paintings over the course of his artistic career.
Family Life
His brother Isaack also became a painter. They both studied with the famed Frans Hals.
Associated With
He and the renowned painter Vincent van Gogh were both Dutch-born artists.
