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Gerrit Dou was born in Leiden on 7 April 1613.

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He was the youngest son of the glazier Douwe Jansz de Vries van Arentsvelt of Harlingen (ca. 1584–ca. 1656) and Marritge Jansdr van Rosenburg (d. 1657). According to Dou’s first biographer, Jan Jansz. Orlers (1570–1646), burgomaster of Leiden and author of a city chronicle in 1641, Dou evinced “a pleasure and desire toward painting” at a young age.¹ In 1622, his father sent him to study for a year and a half with the engraver Bartholomeus Dolendo (ca.

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1570–1626), and subsequently, for two and a half years, “to the skillful glass-painter Master Pieter Couwenhorn (ca. 1599–1654), so that he could learn the same art.”² Thereafter, Dou and his brother Jan (1609– ca.

1647) worked in their father’s shop.³ Dou, still relatively young, seems to have been so reckless in his treatment of the glass that, fearing he would have an accident, his father reluctantly decided “