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Willem Drost (Baptized April 19, 1633 - Buried February 25, 1659) was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker. He was born in what was then known as the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Around 1650, he became a student of Rembrandt, eventually developing a close working relationship, painting history scenes, biblical compositions, symbolic studies of a solitary figure, as well as portraits. Sometime in the mid 1650s, the young artist was sent to Rome, where he painted with fellow Dutchman Johannes Vermeer from Utrecht. After a few years, Drost went on to Venice to paint with the artist Johann Carl Loth.
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