Netherlands

Born in Haarlem. Specialist in lowlife scenes of peasants. Warm earthy colors suit the mood of paintings. Over time, Ostade’s ...

The son of a painter. Cuyp married a wealthy widow in 1658 and neglected his art. He produced several charming Dordrecht, ...

He specialized in night scenes (dark and mysterious, with a full moon or lit by burning candles) and winter landscapes ...

He died tragically at a young age. Less than ten authenticated works are known, but they show the versatility of ...

Also known as Dirk (Thierry) Bouts. Possibly he was a pupil of Rogier van der Weyden. Very little is known ...

His soft, monochromatic landscapes (often in winter) are very natural, unstagey, they convey well the sense of open space and ...

A pupil of Rembrandt. Many of his works are very much in the master’s style, to whom his works have ...

An artist fully formed in the Netherlands who never left Haarlem. After Rembrandt, he is the best painter in Dutch. ...

The artist achieved great mastery of the courtyard scenes. His paintings depict scenes of the well-ordered life of the Dutch ...

The last significant Netherlandish painter in the tradition of Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden. David worked in Bruges and ...

He was precocious and successful, Terborch (or Ter Borch) was one of the finest and most versatile masters of the ...

The only member of the Utrecht School to establish an international reputation. In 1610-1612 he studied in Rome. His narrative ...

Also known as Gerard Dou. Rembrandt's first pupil (from the age of 15). Small-scale works with finely painted details, glassy ...

In the 1630s he was a pupil of Rembrandt, but his works are lighter, less gloomy, and serious. Flinck was ...

The most important painter of the Utrecht school, deeply influenced by Caravaggio's paintings (he spent 10 years in Italy). On ...

Bosch was the last, and perhaps the greatest, of the medieval painters. He was admired in his lifetime; the artist ...

Jacob van Ruisdael was the leading Dutch landscape painter of the second half of the 17th century. He was a ...

A Dutch landscape painter who studied in Rome and painted idyllic landscapes à la Claude Lorrain. Compared with Lorraine, his ...

Born in Utrecht, he lived and worked in Antwerp from 1636. He was famous for his still-life paintings of flowers ...

Jan Gossaert, nicknamed Jan Mabuse, was a native of Mauberge (now France). He is one of the key figures in ...

Sten, one of the best Dutch painters, ran a tavern and owned a brewery. His tavern scenes, feasts, and burgher ...

The painting was not a main activity of the inventor. Van der Heyden is best known for still lifes and ...

Van Eyck's origins are dark and mysterious, only known work is from the 1430s onward. As an artist and diplomat, ...

One of the most important Dutch landscape painters. He was a prolific and much-imitated painter, had many pupils. He often ...

Today he is considered to be one of the finest Dutch genre painters. Unrecognized in his own lifetime and forgotten ...

The son of Jan Baptist Weenix (1621 - 1663), who called himself Giovanni Battista after a trip to Italy in ...

A popular Antwerp-based painter of devotional altarpieces and portraits. In his work tradition (finely detailed northern technique, overloaded symbolism, stiffly ...

At one time he was Haarlem's leading artist. He created portraits, altarpieces on mythological subjects. A trip to Rome in ...

The last of the major Dutch landscape painters of the golden age, he gave up professional painting when he married ...

He is best known for his early paintings which often show kitchen life below stairs, or old women asleep. Later ...

He was the best at painting cows (as well as horses, sheep, and goats). Several of his canvases show them ...

He was a major underrated painter from Bruges, a follower of van Eyck, and influenced by van der Weyden. His ...

A pupil of Rembrandt, he learned from his teacher's landscape etchings and went on to produce a formula for large-scale, ...

Small-scale landscapes of horsemen, battle or hunting scenes (note trademark white horse). Philips Wouverman’s major works are Horses Being Watered, ...

He painted altarpieces and large-scale peasant subjects. He often depicts religious scenes in monumental genre and still-life scenes (e.g., butcher's ...

Breughel was nicknamed "Peasant" of the subject matter of his paintings, not his character. He was an outstanding Flemish painter. ...

Pieter de Hooch was a popular Dutch master and one of the most famous masters of genre painting. He is ...

Painted Dutch architecture and interiors of churches (Gothic style with whitewashed walls). He made meticulous preliminary drawings and measurements Pieter ...

Known chiefly as Rembrandt's teacher. He painted pictures of narrative characters with exaggerated facial expressions and gestures but spoiled by ...

The full name of this great Dutch painter is Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. He created prolific, stunning masterpieces, treasured in ...