Place: Haarlem
Born: 1618
Death: 1650
Biography:
Bartholomeus Molenaer was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem. According to the RKD he was the brother of the painters Nicolaes and Jan Miense Molenaer.  He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1640.  He was a genre painter who painted many peasants in interiors, often with a shadow in the lower left of the painting. 
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