Balthasar van der Veen

Balthasar (Baltazar) van der Veen was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter He was a son of Balthasar van der Veen, a merchant from Antwerp Balthasar, the painter, is mentioned in Jan van der Veen's poem as his nephew. The poem was written for his wedding with Grietje Schaaps, page 319. In this book written by M. E. Houck about some of the well known families from Deventer, Houck writes about a brother of Jan van der Veen, Walewijn van der Veen, page 314 We therefor can assume, correctly that these people were indeed related.