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Furnerius, Abraham
(b Rotterdam, bapt 14 March 1628; d Rotterdam, bur 6 May 1654). Dutch draughtsman and painter. He was the son of Dr Johannes Claesz. Furnerius (d 1668), a Rotterdam surgeon and collector of drawings, prints and art books, and the brother-in-law of the painter Philips Koninck (who married his sister Cornelia). Abraham was also related to Gerrit van Battem, whose mother was a Furnerius and who may have trained with him in Rotterdam between 1648 and 1654. Abraham was himself apprenticed to Rembrandt in Amsterdam in the early 1640s, according to Samuel van Hoogstraten, who was a fellow pupil at the time. Van Hoogstraten remarked of Furnerius that he ‘later [i.e. after his apprenticeship] was quite good in his landscapes’. If the writer was referring to paintings, these are known only from the 1673 estate inventory of items belonging to Maria, another of Abraham’s sisters.
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