right|thumb|Young woman warming her hands by Caesar van Everdingen (1646), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cesar Pietersz, or Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (1616/17 – buried 13 October 1678), older brother of Allart van Everdingen and Jan van Everdingen, was a Dutch Golden Age portrait and history painter.

Biography

thumbnail|left|Bacchus and Ariadne, 1660

thumb| Rape of Europa

thumbnail|Jupiter and Callisto

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He was born in Alkmaar and educated in Utrecht, where he learned to paint from Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst. Caesar became a member of the painter's guild in Alkmaar in 1632.

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File:Everdingen, Caesar van - Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus - c. 1650.jpg|Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus

File:WollebrantGeleynssendeJongh.jpg|Wollebrand Geleynssen de Jongh

File:Meisje met brede hoed door Caesar van Everdingen.jpg|Girl in a Large Hat

File:Caesar van Everdingen - Joueuse de Cistre.jpg|Joueuse de cistre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France

File:Caesar van everdingen-vertumno y pomona-thyssen.jpg|Vertumnus and Pomona, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.

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References

  • Caesar van Everdingen on Artnet
  • Cesar van Everdingen at Artcyclopedia
  • Biography at Web Gallery of Art
  • Works and literature at PubHist