Background
According to the early artist biographer Arnold Houbraken, van Delen was born in Heusden. Shortly after he was born his parents moved to Breda.
According to the early artist biographer Arnold Houbraken, van Delen was born in Heusden. Shortly after he was born his parents moved to Breda.
lieutenant is not clear with whom he apprenticed and both Frans Hals and Hendrick Aerts (who also specialized in architectural paintings) have been proposed as his masters.
More plausible are studies under Pieter van Bronckhorst and/or Bartholomeus van Bassen in Delft. In 1626 he moved to Zeeland and became master of the toll house in Arnemuiden. From that year until his death he was registered in Arnemuiden where he sat on the town council, most of the time as burgomaster.
In 1666 he gave to the Antwerp Chamber of rhetoric Olyftack a painting, which he had made in collaboration with the painter Theodoor Boeyermans.
HIs pupils included Daniël de Blieck and Hans Jurriaensz. van Baden.
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He was a member of the Middelburg Guild of Saint Luke from 1639-1665. Two years later he became a member of the Olyftack.