Posts in Category: Dutch
Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy
Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, baptized January 10, 1588 – 1650/1656, was a Dutch painter born in Amsterdam to parents from Antwerp. He was the son of a monumental mason and probably trained with the Amsterdam portraitist Cornelis van der Voort.
After Van der Voort’s death in 1624, Pickenoy and Thomas de Keyser became leading portrait painters in Amsterdam. Pickenoy specialized in individual portraits and large group portraits of civic guards and institutional regents, while also producing a small number of biblical subjects. Bartholomeus van der Helst is believed to have studied with him.
Pickenoy remained active in Amsterdam, where his documented career extended from 1619 into the 1640s. His paintings are held by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Louvre Museum.
Anton Mauve
Anton Mauve, September 18, 1838 – February 5, 1888, was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, and etcher. Born in Zaandam, he grew up in Haarlem and trained there with the animal painter Pieter Frederik van Os from about 1854 to 1857; he also studied with Wouterus Verschuur and Paul Gabriël. He worked in Amsterdam before settling in The Hague in 1871, later moving to Laren, and died while visiting Arnhem.
Mauve was a leading member of the Hague School. In 1876 he founded the Hollandsche Teeken-Maatschappij with Willem Maris and Hendrik Willem Mesdag. He worked with Willem Maris early in his career and taught Vincent van Gogh in 1881–1882; Mauve was married to Ariëtte Sophia Jeannette Carbentus, Van Gogh’s cousin.
Mauve’s work is represented in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Kunstmuseum Den Haag; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Toledo Museum of Art; National Museum Cardiff; The Mesdag Collection, The Hague; and Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht.
George Hendrik Breitner
George Hendrik Breitner, September 12, 1857 – June 5, 1923, was a Dutch painter, draftsman, printmaker, and photographer. Born in Rotterdam, he received drawing instruction from Christoffel Neurdenburg and studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1876 to 1880. He then lived chiefly in The Hague and Amsterdam; Amsterdam was his principal base from 1886 until his death, apart from 1903–1906 in Aerdenhout.
Breitner joined the artists’ society Pulchri Studio in 1880 and contributed to the Panorama Mesdag in 1880–1881. In The Hague he associated with artists of the Hague School, including Jozef Israëls, Jacob Maris, and Anton Mauve, and he worked alongside Vincent van Gogh in 1882–1883. In Amsterdam he was associated with Amsterdam Impressionism and the Tachtigers; Arti et Amicitiae gave him a retrospective exhibition in 1902. His students included Kees Maks and Marie Henri Mackenzie.
Principal museum collections of Breitner’s work include the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp; Dordrechts Museum; and RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague.
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Dutch artist, May 1, 1566 - June 27, 1641
Adriaen Coorte
Adriaen Coorte, c 1665–after 1707, was a Dutch painter probably associated with Middelburg. Little documentary evidence about his life survives. He is thought to have trained in Amsterdam with the bird painter Melchior d’Hondecoeter around 1680.
Coorte’s earliest known works, dated 1683, are paintings of birds influenced by d’Hondecoeter. He later worked chiefly in Middelburg and specialized in small still lifes of fruit, vegetables, shells, and vanitas objects, often arranged on a stone ledge against a dark background.
His signed works range from 1683 to 1707. Paintings by Coorte are held by the Rijksmuseum, Mauritshuis, National Gallery of Art, Ashmolean Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Zeeuws Museum.
Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn
Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn, Dutch painter, c 1572 – buried June 21, 1657
