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Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was an exhibition held jointly by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, over several months in 2000–2001. [1]
Gelder, Nicolaes van (Leiden c. 1636 – Amsterdam 1677) Gherwen, Reynier van (Leiden c. 1620 – Leiden 1662) Gheyn, Jacques de (II) (Antwerp 1565 – The Hague 1629) Gheyn, Jacques de (III) (Haarlem or Leiden 1596 – Utrecht 1641) Gillig, Jacob (Utrecht c. 1636 – Utrecht 1701) Gillis, Nicolaes (Antwerp 1592/93 – Haarlem aft. 1632)
(c.1462–1527) was an early Dutch painter. He was born and died in Leiden, and is considered the first important painter from that city. [1] Engebrechtsz. taught a number of other Leiden painters, including Lucas van Leyden, Aertgen van Leyden and Engebrechtsz.' own sons Cornelis, Lucas, and Pieter Cornelisz. Kunst. Lucas van Leyden is ...
In his mansion in Leiden he devoted three separate rooms exclusively for the exhibition of his huge collection of paintings and other rooms contained more paintings. [1] He is known to have commissioned Willem van Mieris to make paintings of all kinds – genre, portrait, landscape, history, and still life. [ 1 ]
He travelled back to Naples in 1617 to move his household permanently to Leiden. [1] On 6 January 1618 the artist along with his wife and three surviving children arrived in Leiden. Here van Swanenburg achieved success as a painter and received commissions from local and non-local patrons. [5] He was registered as a master of the young ...
In his early years as an independent artist in the early 1650s Maes painted a few biblical and mythological scenes. These include the Suffer the little Children to come unto Me (1652/3, London, National Gallery), Vertumnus and Pomona (possibly 1653, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin) and Woman of Samaria at the Well (c.1653, Russell collection, Amsterdam).
In 1945, Sturla Gudlaugsson, a specialist in Dutch seventeenth-century painting and iconography and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Mauritshuis in The Hague, wrote The Comedians in the work of Jan Steen and his Contemporaries, which revealed that a major influence on Jan Steen's work was the guild of the Rhetoricians or Rederijkers and their theatrical endeavors.
He gave this painting in turn to the English Ambassador, who presented it to James I. This was the reason why in 1631, when Lievens was 24, he was invited to the British court. [ 1 ] Houbraken appears to have taken this account directly from Jan Orlers' Beschrijvinge der Stad Leyden (1641) which gives a life of Jan Lievens in pages 375-7 ...