Groninger Museum voor Stad en Lande
Groninger Museum voor Stad en Lande – Jan Jansz. de Stomme, was a portrait painter active during the Dutch Golden Age. He was born deaf and mute, and used the nickname „De Stomme“. His father was a baker also named Jan Jansz. who had served as burgemeester of his native town of Franeker. On his father’s death in 1628, De Stomme was orphaned: he came under the guardianship of a lawyer, Dirk Vogelzang, and subsequently spent time in the town of Leeuwarden, where he is believed to have been taught to paint by Wybrand de Geest. He may also have been a pupil of the Leeuwarden painter Harmen Willemsz, and – according to a later, and possibly apocryphal, family tradition – of Rembrandt.
