Johannes Lingelbach – Peasants Dancing the Tarantella
In most minds, seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting is still associated with views of meadows and scenes on or near the water. But there was also a large group of Dutch artists who painted...
View ArticleGregorius van OOSTERLINCK – The 5 senses
It is thanks to the signature, written out in full and placed prominently on a pewter jug, that we are able to identify this company of men who are smoking, drinking, and making music, as a work by the...
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Another Dimension by Simon Schama
As published in “The New Yorker”, October 2002 In Calvinist Amsterdam in the summer of 1661, the Catholic painter Michael Sweerts began to exhibit signs of indiscreet fervor. He fasted, took Communion...
View ArticleLudolf Backhuysen – Dutch Ships in a Tempest
Ludolf Backhuysen became Holland’s leading marine specialist when Willem van de Velde the Elder and the Younger (father and son) moved to London in 1672-1673. The artist elevated marine painting from...
View ArticleJan van der Heyden – Panoramic View with Medieval Town and the St Cecilia of...
Jan van der Heyden is arguably the greatest cityscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age. From early on Van der Heyden also found inspiration for his art outside the Netherlands. The large church in the...
View ArticleGerard Houckgeest – A gothic church interior
Gerard Houckgeest was born in The Hague and received his training there from Bartholomeus van Bassen. Initially Houckgeest painted – like his master Van Bassen – mainly fantasy architecture. This...
View ArticleWillem van Mieris – The Sleeping Hurdy Gurdy player
Signed W Van Mieris ft anno 1690 The versatile Willem van Mieris was the most successful genre painter of his generation and carried forth the torch of Leiden fine painting lit by Gerrit Dou two...
View ArticleFrans Pourbus – Portrait of Charles de Chantecler
Frans Pourbus the Younger mainly painted portraits and initially worked as court painter for the Brussels-based Spanish Regents of the Netherlands; in 1600 he moved to Mantua to work for Vicenzo...
View ArticleMatthias Stom – Christ chasing the moneychangers from temple
Stom’s Christ chasing the moneychangers from the temple shows a clear connection to the works of Gerard van Honthorst and Hendrick ter Brugghen in Utrecht in the physiognomies of the main actors as...
View ArticleWillem van de Velde I – The HMS York
Willem van de Velde the Elder and his son and pupil Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633 – 1707) are the most famous marine artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Willem van de Velde the Elder is primarily...
View ArticleGovaert Flinck – Portrait of a girl as shepherdess
Throughout his career Govaert Flinck painted pastoral themes; his earliest dated one is 1636. Pastoral scenes were very popular and were first developed in Utrecht (see also the Shepherdess by Paulus...
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