Joan van der Spriet
painter from the Northern Netherlands
Joan van der Spriet was a Dutch painter who specialised in portrait painting. According to Arnold Houbraken, Spriet grew up in a Delft orphanage and became a pupil of Jan Verkolje. He was a portrait painter who moved to England and, after marrying there, settled there. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, Spriet was also a printmaker, but no known works survive.
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