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Adriaen Backer, married to Elsje Colijn, was a member of the [[Waterlanders|Waterlander]] Mennonite congregation at [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]]. He was a Dutch painter, a pupil of his uncle [[Backer, Jacob Adriaensz (1608-1651)|Jacob Adriaensz Backer]]. For a time he stayed in Rome (1666); upon his return he introduced the baroque style into Holland by imitating Italian masters. The Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam contained four of his paintings in the 1950s.
= Bibliography =
<em class="gameo_bibliography">Oud-Holland: tijdschrift voor Nederlandse kunstgeschiedenis</em> 43 (1926): 292.

Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker.  <em class="gameo_bibliography">Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Unter Mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des In-und Auslandes</em>, 37 vols.  Leipzig: W. Englemann, 1907-1950.
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