Gli Interni di Elinga e de Hooch
, there is no evidence to suggest that Janssens Elinga or any other artist was de Hooch's pupil. Pieter De Hooch (baptized December 20, 1629 1684) was born in Rotterdam to Hendrick Hendricksz de Hooch, a bricklayer, and Annetge Pieters, a midwife. He was the eldest of five children and outlived all of his siblings. He studied art in Haarlem under the landscape painter, Nicolaes Berchem. Beginning in 1650, he worked as a painter and servant for a linen-merchant and art collector named ...
