Adam Pynacker, February 15, 1622 – March 28, 1673, was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Born in Schiedam and buried in Amsterdam, he first worked as a wine merchant, like his father. His formal artistic education and teachers are not documented.
Pynacker was recorded in Delft from 1649 to 1651 and again in 1657, where he was associated with the painter, art dealer, and innkeeper Adam Pick. He worked for the Brandenburg court at Lenzen in 1654 and 1655, married Eva Maria de Geest in 1658, converted to Catholicism, and moved to Amsterdam during the 1660s. He is associated with the Dutch Italianate painters; later sources describe travel in Italy, though surviving documentation does not confirm it. No pupils are documented.
His work is held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, c 1650
Oil on panel, 7.4 × 9 in
Private Collection
View of a Harbor in Schiedam, 1650–1653
Oil on canvas, 22 × 18.1 in
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Peasant Playing with His Dog While Resting at the Margin of a Wood, c 1653
Oil on canvas, 25.9 × 29.7 in
Private Collection
Bridge in an Italian Landscape, c 1653–1654
Oil on panel, 17.2 × 20.7 in
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
The Ferryboat, c 1657
Oil on canvas, 25.5 × 29.8 in
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
An Italianate Landscape with Two Donkeys Crossing a Collapsing Bridge, 1660s
Oil on canvas, 17.5 × 20 in
Private Collection
Landscape with Sportsmen and Game, c 1661–1665
Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 78.2 in
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Landscape with an Enraged Ox, 1665–1670
Oil on canvas, 46.2 × 41.4 in
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
House in a Southern Landscape, 1632–1646
Gray wash over graphite on paper, 6.7 × 11.5 in
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Study of a Tree
Black chalk, wash on gray paper, 12 × 8 in
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Landscape with Two Tree Trunks in the Foreground
Black chalk, gray and brown wash on gray paper, 8.3 × 11.8 in
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
A House on a Hillside in a Southern Landscape, mid-17th century
Black chalk, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink on paper, 7.6 × 12.2 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mountainous Landscape, 17th century
Library of Leiden University, Netherlands
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