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Biography

Dutch painter, the elder brother of Allaert van Everdingen. He painted portraits and historical pictures, and was attracted by the south not the north. Although he never went to Italy, he captured the spirit of Italian art better than many of his countrymen who crossed the Alps: witness his beautiful Four Muses with Pegasus (c), part of the decoration of the royal villa - the Huis ten Bosch - at The Hague.

Van Everdingen's work represent a high point in Dutch Classicism.

Caesar Pietersz van Everdingen, who was also called Caesar Bovetius van Everdingen, was born in Alkmaar in about He was the first child of the solicitor and notary Pieter Cornelisz van Everdingen () and his second wife, the municipal midwife Aechte Claesdr Moer (d.

), who were married on 15 July The couple had four more children: Johannes (ca. ), who chose the same profession as his father and practised in Alkmaar, Allaert, who became a landscape painter, his twin sister Dieuwertje, who died in infan