Brief Biography-Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel was from Leeuwarden, where his father Lambert Jacobsz was a painter and devoted Mennonite preacher. His father was his teacher when he was young, and later, he received tuition from Jacob Backer in Amsterdam. Abraham Married and moved to Leiden in 1648 and undertook several commissions for the Cloth Hall. His main subject was portraiture which he excelled in when he returned to Amsterdam; he eventually settled there. He was a member of the Guild of Saint Luke and painted portraits of the town’s notables and family group portraits. His works are still on view in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.