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Van Ravensteyn was born in The Hague.
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lieutenant is unknown who taught him how to paint, but he was a follower of the Delft portrait painter Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt. Van Ravesteyn is mentioned there in the city archives 1597. In 1608 he bought a house on the Molstraat and in 1628 he moved in the Molstraat.
In 1656 he left the guild with a group of dissatisfied painter friends and was one of the founders of the Confrerie Pictura.
His portrait was painted by Sir Anthony van Dyck and he produced Schutterstuk works. His workshop produced many portraits for the royal house of Nassau and he competed with Miereveld for several commissions.
Borsman, Aelbert Dircksz. Coeppier, Pieter Craen, Jacob Dirksz. van den Enden, Fransise de Goltz, Adriaen Hanneman, Barent Jansz., Thomas Ouwater, Clement Ram, January Rassenbourch, Frederick Sonnius, Dirck Verlaer, January Pous Voet and Pauwels Willemsz.
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Confrerie Pictura]
From 1598 until his death he lived in the Hague, where in 1598 he became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke of the Hague.
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Netherlands