Meyndert Hobbema
| Years of life: |
1638 – 1709 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Jacob van Ruisdael |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School |
The last of the major Dutch landscape painters of the golden age, he gave up professional painting when he married ...
Nicolaes Maes
| Years of life: |
1632 – 1693 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Rembrandt |
| Artist's students: |
Justus de Gelder, Margaretha van Godewijk, Jacob Moelaert, Johannes Vollevens |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Delft School |
He is best known for his early paintings which often show kitchen life below stairs, or old women asleep. Later ...
Orazio Gentileschi
| Years of life: |
1563 – 1639 |
| Artist's students: |
Artemisia Gentileschi |
| Art Movement: |
Mannerism (Late Renaissance) |
| Painting School: |
Caravaggisti |
Remarkable Tuscan artist. Born in Pisa, he settled in Rome in 1576. His work was influenced by Caravaggio but without ...
Paulus Potter
| Years of life: |
1625 – 1654 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Pieter Symonsz Potter |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Guild of Saint Luke |
He was the best at painting cows (as well as horses, sheep, and goats). Several of his canvases show them ...
Philips Koninck
| Years of life: |
1619 – 1688 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Jacob Koninck, Rembrandt |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
A pupil of Rembrandt, he learned from his teacher's landscape etchings and went on to produce a formula for large-scale, ...
Philips Wouwerman
| Years of life: |
1619 – 1668 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Pouwels Joostsz Wouwerman (?) |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke |
Small-scale landscapes of horsemen, battle or hunting scenes (note trademark white horse). Philips Wouverman’s major works are Horses Being Watered, ...
Pieter Brueghel (the Younger)
| Years of life: |
1564 – 1638 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
| Artist's students: |
Frans Snyders |
| Art Movement: |
Northern Renaissance |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School, Guild of Saint Luke |
Eldest son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder ("Peasant"). He imitated his father's manner and made copies of his paintings. Later ...
Pieter de Hooch
| Years of life: |
1629 – 1683 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Nicolaes Berchem |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School, Delft School |
Pieter de Hooch was a popular Dutch master and one of the most famous masters of genre painting. He is ...
Pieter Jansz Saenredam
| Years of life: |
1597 – 1665 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Frans de Grebber |
| Art Movement: |
Dutch Golden Age, Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Guild of Saint Luke |
Painted Dutch architecture and interiors of churches (Gothic style with whitewashed walls). He made meticulous preliminary drawings and measurements Pieter ...
Pieter Lastman
| Years of life: |
1583 – 1633 |
| Artist's students: |
Rembrandt, Jan Lievens |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Known chiefly as Rembrandt's teacher. He painted pictures of narrative characters with exaggerated facial expressions and gestures but spoiled by ...
Pieter Paul Rubens
| Years of life: |
1577 – 1640 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Tobias Verhaecht, Adam van Noort, Otto van Veen |
| Artist's students: |
Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Snyders |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School, Antwerp School |
An extraordinary man, who had traveled to many countries, gifted with many talents: artist, diplomat, merchant, scholar. His studio, which ...
Virtuoso architect, decorator, and painter who had great success after by Catholic grandees in Italy and France. Known as the ...
Rembrandt
| Years of life: |
1606 – 1669 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Jacob van Swanenburg, Pieter Lastman |
| Artist's students: |
Carel Fabritius, Nicolaes Maes, Gerrit Dou, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Ferdinand Bol |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
| Painting School: |
Dutch School |
The full name of this great Dutch painter is Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. He created prolific, stunning masterpieces, treasured in ...
Roelant Savery
| Years of life: |
1576 – 1639 |
| Artist's students: |
Gillis d'Hondecoeter |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School |
Very prolific, successful artist. Traveled extensively (France, Prague, Vienna, the Alps). He settled in Utrecht. Created landscapes - his paintings ...
Salomon van Ruysdael
| Years of life: |
1600 – 1670 |
| Art Movement: |
Dutch Golden Age, Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Guild of Saint Luke |
Landscape painter. Uncle of the better known Jacob van Ruisdael. He painted views of Holland. Among his later works are several ...
Salvator Rosa
| Years of life: |
1615 – 1673 |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Neapolitan school |
A feisty, authority-defying, narcissistic, lover of all things gloomy. Poet, actor, musician, satirist. He is now known for his mysterious, ...
Sir Anthony van Dyck
| Years of life: |
1599 – 1641 |
| Artist's Teachers: |
Peter Paul Rubens |
| Art Movement: |
Baroque |
| Painting School: |
Flemish School, Antwerp School |
This remarkable artist was born in Antwerp, the son of a silk merchant. He is known mainly as a portraitist, ...
The talented son of a prolific maritime painter. His early work is neat drawings of fishing vessels on tranquil seas. ...
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