Bartholomeus Molenaer

Bartholomeus Molenaer (1618 – 1650) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem. According to the RKD he was the brother of the painters Nicolaes and Jan Miense Molenaer. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1640. He was a genre painter who painted many peasants in interiors, often with a shadow in the lower left of the painting.

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