allaert van everdingen (dutch pronunciation: , bapt. 18 june 1621 – 8 november 1675 (buried)), was a dutch golden age painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint.van everdingen was born at alkmaar, the son of a government clerk. he and his older brothers, the painters jan and caesar van everdingen, according to arnold houbraken, were taught by roelandt savery at utrecht. allaert moved in 1645 to haarlem, where he studied under pieter de molijn, and finally settled about 1657 in amsterdam, where he died in 1675. it would be difficult to find a greater contrast than that presented by the wo…