Andrew Van Ostade (1610-1685) Dutch, Etching. 'The Spectacle Seller'. Signed in plate. Provenance: Dr. Roberto Crea, Hillsborough, CA. Overall Size: 11 5/8 x 11 in. Sight Size: 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. #1069Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx December 10, 1610 - buried May 2, 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age* painter of genre works.According to Houbraken, he and his brother were pupils of Frans Hals and like him, spent most of their lives in Haarlem. He thought they were "Lubekkers" by birth, though this has since found to be false. He was the eldest son of Jan Hendricx Ostade, a weaver from the town of Ostade near Eindhoven. Although Adriaen and his brother Isaack were born in Haarlem, they adopted the name "van Ostade" as painters. According to the RKD, he became a pupil in 1627 of the portrait painter Frans Hals, at that time the master of Adriaen Brouwer and Jan Miense Molenaer. In 1632 he is registered in Utrecht (where, like Jacob Duck, he was probably influenced by the village scenes of Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, which were popular in his day), but in 1634 he was back in Haarlem where he joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.