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          When Jean-Baptiste Abraham-Courville was born in , his father, François Abraham Courville, was 32 and his mother, Marguerite Daout, was.

          Abraham Godijn

          Abraham Godijn or Abraham Godyn (alternative spellings of family name: Goddijn and Abraham Goddyn) (1655/56 – after 1724) was a Flemish painter who, after a stay in Italy, worked for a time as a court painter in Prague where he produced magnificent Baroque frescos.

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          6. He later returned to Antwerp.[1]

          Life

          Details about his life are scarce. Abraham Godijn was probably born in 1655 or 1656 in Antwerp where he studied under the prominent history painterHendrik Herregouts.

          He became in 1681 a member of the 'Sodaliteit van de Bejaerde Jongmans', a fraternity for bachelors established by the Jesuit order. Not long thereafter he travelled to Italy.[1] His work was well received in Rome where he became a court painter of the Pope and received the title of 'Painter of the Office of his Imperial and Catholic Majesty'.[2]

          He moved on to Prague in 1690 where he worked as a court painter until 1698.

          He received a commission to paint fresc