David de Haen | |
Birth Date: | 1585 |
Birth Place: | Amsterdam, Holland |
Death Place: | Palazzo Giustiniani[1] Rome |
Nationality: | Dutch |
Field: | painting |
Movement: | Caravaggisti |
Patrons: | Pietro Cussida Vincenzo Giustiniani |
David de Haen (1585 – 8 August 1622) was a Dutch Caravaggesque painter and drawing artist, active in Rome between 1615 and 1622.
David was born in Amsterdam and moved to Rome at a young age where he would remain the rest of his life.[2] He worked with Dirk van Baburen in Rome on the decoration of the chapel of the Pietà in the church of San Pietro in Montorio (1617–20).[3] In 1619 and the spring of 1620 de Haen and van Baburen were living in the same house in the Roman parish of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte.[4] He was a follower of Caravaggio and painted religious and historical paintings[5]