The work is a three-quarter length portrait of Johanna Martens (1599—1639), the wife of Antonie van Hilten (1586—1670), Secretary of State of Utrecht (dignified by...
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The sitter is likely the 20-year-old Maria Trip. She hailed from an extremely wealthy family involved in the arms trade. Here, she displays her affluence in full...
Philips Lucaszoon was a senior official with the Dutch East India Company. He had returned to the Netherlands in 1633. Rembrandt (1606—1669) painted this portrait...
In the 1630s, Thomas de Keyser was the most fashionable portrait painter in Amsterdam, and his work was popular with the middle and upper classes of that city. As one of...
The regentesses Clara Abba, Elisabeth van Duynen, and Agatha Munter administered Amsterdam’s leper house, a charitable institution. Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol...
Rembrandt painted Oopjen Coppit (1611—1689), the wife of Maerten Soolmans (see the post from 8th December), when she was pregnant with her first child at the age of 23....
Isabella Brant was the first wife of the Antwerp master Peter Paul Rubens, whom she married shortly after his return from Italy in 1609. Just before Anthony van Dyck,...
This type of ruff collar was known as a millstone in the Netherlands. It was made by folding and starching thin gauge. The maintenance and starching of collars was done...
One of the greatest 17th-century Dutch artists, Frans Hals (1582/84—1666) painted some of the most memorable works of the period. His quick painting technique earned him...
Marie Larp is shown seated in an upright position within a fictive oval frame, looking directly at the viewer. The stark black and white of her costume might suggest...
Still life painter Willem van Aelst (1627—1683) was one of the earliest Dutch artists to paint an asymmetrically arranged still life paintings of fine glassware, silver...
At the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606—1669) moved from his hometown of Leiden to the bustling city of Amsterdam. Within a few years he had become one of the city’s...
Amalia van Solms (1602—1675) was a German noblewoman who became the Princess of Orange and consort of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, significantly shaping Dutch...
By 1624 Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy (1588—1650/1656) was one of the most remarkable and sought-after portraitists in Amsterdam, a stature he retained until the arrival of...
The portraits of Maerten Soolmans and his wife Oopjen Coppit (I’ll post separately), two masterpieces painted in 1634, when Rembrandt was just 28 years old, have been...
Catharina Hooft became famous at a very early age, when she was painted by the Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals (1582/3—1666). In this triumph of characterisation, the...
Julius Sergius von Klever (1850—1924) was a German artist born and worked in the Russian Empire. He began his artistic career at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St....
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Auguste Renoir (1841—919) began his artistic career as a porcelain painter; however, his ambitions to become a professional artist prompted him to seek other...
A very successful Flemish painter of his time Anthony van Dyck (1599—1641) was largely responsible for introducing the double or ‘friendship’ portrait to Britain. The...
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