Egbert van Heemskerck, or Egbert Jaspersz van Heemskerk (1634–1704)

• Was a Haarlem Dutch Golden Age painter.
• Egbert was born in Haarlem to the doctor Jasper Jaspersz van Heemskerck and his wife Marytge Jansdr van Stralen.
• After his father's death, his mother Marytge married the art dealer Jan Wijnants in 1651.
• This art dealer was the father of the landscape painter Jan Wijnants, making Jan and Egbert stepbrothers.
• He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in c. 1646.
• He has been reported to be a student of Pieter de Grebber.
• In Haarlem in 1663 he declared himself to be 28, and in 1665, he declared himself to be 31 years old.
• In the early 1680s he moved to London.
• In London one of his often satirical paintings apparently landed him in serious trouble with King Charles II of England.
• He is registered as having died in London in 1704.
• He was listed by Laurens van der Vinne as one of the painters who had predeceased his father in 1702.
• His paintings are exhibited in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Louvre in Paris, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
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