Isaac van Swanenburg

Coenraet van Schilperoort, Otto van Veen and Jan van Goyen are recorded as having studied under Isaac van Swanenburg. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are allegory, genre, history and portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp, Leiden and Hamburg. Positions recorded include mayor of Leiden and council member. Works named in the authority record are Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat. Work by Isaac van Swanenburg is recorded in the collections of Museum Plantin-Moretus, Huis van het boek, Museum De Lakenhal, Rijksmuseum and Prinsenhof.

• Name — Isaac van Swanenburg • Birth Name — Isaac Claesz • Born — 1537 • Birthplace — Leiden • Died — 1614 • Place of death — Leiden • Field — Painting, Stained glass, Politics • Movement — Renaissance

According to Houbraken, Swanenburg was a very good painter, whose paintings hung in various council buildings of Leiden. Houbraken was surprised that Swanenburg was never mentioned in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck. Houbraken was however mistaken, because Swanenburg is mentioned as one of more than 20 disciples of Frans Floris in Van Mander's long list of pupils. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, Swanenburg was in Antwerp studying with Floris for 6–8 years in his youth, and settled in Leiden after his training in 1565. He briefly fled to Hamburg for a year during the Siege of Leiden, but had returned by 1574. He kept a large and respected workshop in Leiden, for oil- and glass painting. His pupils were Jan van Goyen, Coenraet van Schilperoort, Otto van Veen, and his three sons. He was buried in the Pieterskerk, Leiden.