Adriaen van der Cabel (1631–1705)

• Also knows as Ary van der Touw, was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
• He was born and grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, near The Hague.
• According to Houbraken, he was a student of Jan van Goyen.
• His real name was van der Touw, but that wasn't grand enough according to Van Goyen, so he changed it to mean "of Cable".
• Houbraken wrote that his brother Engel was also a painter.
• Cabel moved to Lyon as a young man and spent the rest of his life there.

• According to the RKD, he lived in Lyon from 1655 to 1658, then Rome from 1659 to 1666, and finally Lyon again from 1668 to his death.

• His bentname was Geestigheid.
• Van der Cabel's best known student was Lyonnaise landscape painter Adrien Manglard, who was also his godson.
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