Matthias Scheits
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Matthias Scheits was a German Baroque painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was in Hamburg while Johannes Voorhout
Johannes Voorhout
Johannes Voorhout was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:Voorhout was the son of the Amsterdam clock maker Cornelis Voorhout. Seeing that his son was beter suited to drawing than the technical aspects of watch making, he apprenticed him to Constantijn Verhout in Gouda...

 was there and though he had initially trained in Haarlem under Philips Wouwerman, he later painted farm & village scenes in the manner of David Teniers
David Teniers
David Teniers may refer to three Flemish artists, father, son, and grandson:*David Teniers the Elder , turned from large religious paintings to landscapes and genre scenes...

. Voorhout met him while he was working on historical sketches that were later published under his own name as prints of the old and new testament.

According to the RKD he was the teacher of the painter Adam de Manyoki.
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