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| FOR NOW- Just a collection of my favorite (Golden Age and pre-Golden Age) Dutch Artists. click on images for larger version (you will be directed the ARC- The Art Renewal Center) for more Dutch artists - click here |
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| Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom born 1566, Haarlem. died 1640, Haarlem. Master-creator of the realistic landscape (devolped in 1590s), also painted a number of historical scenes, including the 1607 Battle of Gibraltar. Became an international celebrity. Also invented the urban panaorama... and considered by many to be the among finest of European marine painters, "uniqely skilled in his day at handling large masses of shipping". |
Battle of Gibraltarcourtesy of Web Gallery of Art. |
Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys courtesy of Web Gallery of Art. |
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Aelbert Cuyp born 1620, Dordrecht. died 1691, Dordrecht. The leading Dortrecht artist -one of the many Dutch artists who specialized during the Golden Age. The most famous of a family of painters, his speciality was atmospheric panoramas of the countryside. Primarily - sunlit views with cows. Cuyp's landscapes were based on reality (a new phenominon in the Golden Age - Cuyp may have become acquainted with this style through the work of Jan van Goyen). A phenomenal number of paintings are ascribed to him. Cuyp’s paintings and drawings had an enormous appeal for the English aristocracy of the later eighteenth century and for American collectors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is not without critics, however: one lambasted his work as: "chocolate box blandness"* |
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| Gerrit van Honthorst born 1590. died 1656, Utrecht. Along with another painter, Dirk van Baburen (1594-1624), Honthorst painted brothel scenes not to titillate but to dramatize dangers of the seductive and venal. Honthorst was well known for his candle-lit night scenes. Infected thus early with a mania which came to be very general in the Netherlands, Honthorst went to Italy in 1616, where he copied the naturalism and eccentricities of Michelangelo da Caravaggio.It was his habit to transmute every subject into a night scene. He was invited to England, where he painted portraits of Charles I and his queen (as well as Charles' sister, the queen of Bohemia, who was in exile in the Netherlands). Upon his return to the Netherlands, Honthorst became court painter to the princess of Orange, settled (1637) at The Hague. Even now his works are very numerous.* |
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Gerard ter Borch born 1617, Zwolle. died 1681, Deventer. Today virtually unknown outside the Netherlands, ter Borch is very underrated. Hailed as one of greatest artists of Golden Age. Well travelled, having been to London, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. Ter Borch is excellent as a portrait painter, but still greater as a painter of genre subjects. his colouring is clear and rich, but his best skill lies in his unequalled rendering of texture in draperies (satin, etc. ... see Gallant Conversation, right). Ter Borch's works are comparatively rare; only about eighty have been catalogued.* |
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| Pieter de Hooch born 1629, Rotterdam. died 1684, Amsterdam. He was the eldest of five children and outlived all of his siblings. While in Delft, de Hooch is also believed to have learned from the painters Carel Fabritius and Nicolaes Maes, who were both early members of the Delft School. The early work of de Hooch, like most young painters of his time, was mostly composed of scenes of soldiers in stables and taverns. in the mid-1650s, he switched his focus to domestic scenes and family portraits. His work showed astute observation of the mundane details of everyday life while also functioning as well-ordered morality tales. These paintings often exhibited a sophisticated and delicate treatment of light similar to those of Vermeer, who lived in Delft at the same time as de Hooch. 19th century art historians had assumed that Vermeer had been influenced by de Hooch's work, but the opposite is now believed. Most scholars believe that de Hooch's work after around 1670 became more stylized and deteriorated in quality. It has been surmised that this was in part due to deteriorating health; de Hooch died in 1684 in an Amsterdam insane asylum, though how he came to be there is unrecorded.* |
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