Van Veen

Van Veen, an occasional name for the meritorious Haarlem painter, Martin Jacobsz Heemskerk (1498-1574).—OTTO VAN VEEN was a native of Leyden, born c. 1556. He studied art at Liège and Rome, settled first at Brussels, next at Antwerp, where the great Rubens was his pupil. Van Veen stood high in the favour both of Parma and the next governor, the Archduke Albert of Austria. He died in Brussels about 1634.