Wijk I shooters' meal with Colonel Jan van de Poll and Captain Gijsbert van de Poll, Johannes Spilberg (1650)
Johannes Spilberg was a German Baroque painter, active in Amsterdam during the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.
Spilberg was born and died in Düsseldorf. He learned to paint from his father, who painted in oils and on glass, who then sent him to Antwerp, to learn under Rubens. While underway, he heard that Rubens had died, so he settled in Amsterdam and became apprentice to Govert Flink, a student of Rembrandt, for seven years. He won a commission for a schutterstuk from the Burgomasters of Amsterdam that still hangs in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam he married Marrite Gerrits in 1649.
