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Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy

On August 10, 2026 - 17th Century, Dutch, january 10

Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, baptized January 10, 1588, and deceased between May 1650 and October 1656, was a Dutch painter born in Amsterdam to parents from Antwerp. The son of a monumental mason, he 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. He produced individual portraits, large group portraits of civic guards and institutional regents, and a small number of religious and mythological paintings. Bartholomeus van der Helst may have studied with him.

Pickenoy remained active in Amsterdam from 1619 into the 1640s. His paintings are held by the Louvre Museum, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Detroit Institute of Arts, and other collections.

Anton Mauve

On July 27, 2026 - 19th Century, Dutch

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

On July 25, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, Dutch, september 12

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.

Ferdinand Bol

On June 4, 2026 - 17th Century, Dutch, june 24

Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, June 24, 1616 - August 24, 1680

Johan Barthold Jongkind

On May 25, 2026 - 19th Century, Dutch, june 3

Johan Barthold Jongkind, Dutch painter, June 3, 1819 - February 9, 1891

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt

On May 3, 2026 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Dutch, may 1

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Dutch artist, May 1, 1566 - June 27, 1641

Adriaen Coorte

On April 29, 2026 - 17th Century, 18th Century, Dutch

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.