In his biography of Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne in Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst (1661-1662) Cornelis de Bie devotes a few lines to the painter’s early years. Until recently, this was all the information we had regarding the origins, childhood and training of this versatile artist. Fresh biographical data for Adriaen van de Venne and his family, however, has recently become available from the digitized archival records of Delft, Leiden, Rotterdam and Zeeland indexed in the online Ecartico database, an initiative of the University of Amsterdam. Combining these archival discoveries enhances our understanding of the milieu in which Adriaen grew up and of his family network. He is highly likely to have been born in 1590 (rather than 1589 as hitherto assumed) and baptized in the church in ’t Woudt, near Delft. His parents were migrants from the Southern Netherlands: the stocking maker Pieter van de Venne from Lier and Jannetgen Beuvincx from Tournai. Adriaen’s father died before his birth and his mother remarried in Delft in 1594 to the Mechelen weaver Laurens Wittocx. This second marriage produced a son called Salomon Lourens, who became a ‘coarse painter’ and bricklayer in Rotterdam. Adriaen remained in contact with this half-brother for his whole life. Adriaen relied heavily at first on his older brother Jan, who probably arranged an apprenticeship for him with Simon de Valck, a goldsmith friend in Leiden. He later followed his brother to Middelburg, where they set up a successful printing, publishing and art dealing firm. Shortly before Jan’s death in 1625, Adriaen moved to The Hague, from where he kept in contact with his half-brother Salomon Lourens in Rotterdam. They acted as joint guardians of their nephew Pieter (one of Jan’s sons), who also lived in Rotterdam and worked there as a parchment maker. Archive documents from Rotterdam testify to the close links that persisted between the branches of the family in Rotterdam and The Hague. Adriaen possibly used his Rotterdam family connections to sell his paintings in this city.

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关于 Adriaen van de Venne（1590-1662 年）及其家人的新传记数据

在他为阿德里亚恩·彼得斯·范·德文纳撰写的传记中Het gulden 橱柜 van de edel vry schilderconst（1661-1662）Cornelis de Bie 用几行文字描述了这位画家的早年生活。直到最近，这就是我们所掌握的关于这位多才多艺的艺术家的出身、童年和训练的所有信息。然而，阿德里亚恩·范·德维纳及其家人的最新传记数据最近可从代尔夫特、莱顿、鹿特丹和泽兰的数字化档案记录中获得，这些档案记录已在阿姆斯特丹大学发起的在线 Ecartico 数据库中编入索引。结合这些档案发现，加深了我们对阿德里亚恩成长环境及其家庭网络的理解。他很可能出生于 1590 年（而不是迄今假设的 1589 年）并在代尔夫特附近的 't Woudt 的教堂受洗。他的父母是来自荷兰南部的移民：来自 Lier 的长袜制造商 Pieter van de Venne 和来自 Tournai 的 Jannetgen Beuvincx。阿德里亚恩的父亲在他出生前就去世了，他的母亲于 1594 年在代尔夫特再婚，嫁给了梅赫伦纺织工劳伦斯·维托克斯 (Laurens Wittocx)。第二次婚姻生下了一个儿子，名叫所罗门洛伦斯，他成为了鹿特丹的一名“粗糙的画家”和瓦工。阿德里亚恩一生都与这位同父异母的兄弟保持联系。Adriaen 起初非常依赖他的哥哥 Jan，他可能为他安排了在莱顿的金匠朋友 Simon de Valck 那里当学徒。后来他跟随他的兄弟来到米德尔堡，在那里他们建立了一家成功的印刷、出版和艺术品交易公司。1625 年简去世前不久，阿德里亚恩搬到了海牙，在那里他与他在鹿特丹的同父异母兄弟所罗门洛伦斯保持联系。他们是他们侄子彼得（简的儿子之一）的共同监护人，彼得也住在鹿特丹，在那里做羊皮纸制造商。来自鹿特丹的档案文件证明了鹿特丹和海牙的家族分支之间存在着密切的联系。阿德里亚恩可能利用他在鹿特丹的家庭关系在这个城市出售他的画作。