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Govaerts [Goevaerts; Gouvaert; Goyvaert], Abraham
(bapt Antwerp, 30 Aug 1589; d Antwerp, 9 Sept 1626). Flemish painter. He was the son of Elisabeth Yselstein and Willem Govaerts, a dealer in second-hand clothes and paintings. He was admitted as a master to the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1607–8. In 1609 he bought two houses on the St Jansstraat next to his parents’ home. On 9 February 1622 he married Isabella Gillis; they had two daughters. He trained a number of painters: Hans Groenrijs (1617), Andries van den Bogaerde (1619–20), Niclaes Aertsen, Gysbrecht van den Berch and Frans Snyders (the last three from 1623 to 1624).
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