Adriaen van Ostade
Years of life: |
1610 – 1684 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Frans Hals |
Artist's students: |
Michiel van Musscher, Adrian Isaac |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Painting School: |
Dutch School, Haarlem School |
Born in Haarlem. Specialist in lowlife scenes of peasants. Warm earthy colors suit the mood of paintings. Over time, Ostade’s ...
Aelbert Cuyp
Years of life: |
1620 – 1691 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Painting School: |
Dutch School |
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 ...
Annibale Carracci
Years of life: |
1560 – 1609 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Titian |
Artist's students: |
Guido Reni |
Art Movement: |
Baroque |
Painting School: |
Bolognese School |
Born in Bologna, he lived in Rome from 1595. The most talented member of the brilliant trio (with brother Agostino ...
Painter, draftsman, and etcher; main exponent of Late Mannerism, its Northern European variant. Born in Antwerp. He worked in France, ...
Carel Fabritius
Years of life: |
1622 – 1654 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Rembrandt |
Artist's students: |
Johannes Vermeer |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Painting School: |
Delft School |
He died tragically at a young age. Less than ten authenticated works are known, but they show the versatility of ...
Teniers is best known for his genre paintings depicting rough peasants, such as in Boors Carousing. After 1651 he detailed ...
Esaias van de Velde
Years of life: |
1591 – 1630 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Gillis van Coninxloo |
Artist's students: |
Jan van Goyen, Pieter van Laer, Jan Martszen de Jonge, Pieter de Molyn, Pieter de Neyn, Anthony van de Velde |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Painting School: |
Dutch School, Haarlem School, Haarlem Guild of St. Luke |
His soft, monochromatic landscapes (often in winter) are very natural, unstagey, they convey well the sense of open space and ...
Gentile Bellini
Years of life: |
1429 – 1507 |
Artist's students: |
Titian |
Art Movement: |
Early Renaissance |
Painting School: |
Venetian School |
Gentile was the brother of Giovanni Bellini and he was much respected in his own lifetime. was noted especially for ...
Govaert Flinck
Years of life: |
1615 – 1660 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Rembrandt |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Painting School: |
Dutch School |
In the 1630s he was a pupil of Rembrandt, but his works are lighter, less gloomy, and serious. Flinck was ...
Jacob van Ruisdael
Years of life: |
1628 – 1682 |
Artist's students: |
Meindert Hobbema |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Painting School: |
Guild of Saint Luke |
Jacob van Ruisdael was the leading Dutch landscape painter of the second half of the 17th century. He was a ...
Jan Both
Years of life: |
1618 – 1652 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Dirck Both, Abraham Bloemaert |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
A Dutch landscape painter who studied in Rome and painted idyllic landscapes à la Claude Lorrain. Compared with Lorraine, his ...
Jan Steen
Years of life: |
1626 – 1679 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Nikolaus Knüpfer, Jan van Goyen, Adriaen van Ostade, Guild of Saint Luke |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Painting School: |
Dutch School, Haarlem School |
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 ...
Jan van Goyen
Years of life: |
1596 – 1656 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Esaias van de Velde |
Artist's students: |
Jan Steen |
Painting School: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
One of the most important Dutch landscape painters. He was a prolific and much-imitated painter, had many pupils. He often ...
Jan Vermeer
Years of life: |
1632 – 1675 |
Art Movement: |
Baroque, Dutch Golden Age |
Painting School: |
Dutch School, Delft School, Guild of Saint Luke |
Today he is considered to be one of the finest Dutch genre painters. Unrecognized in his own lifetime and forgotten ...
Joachim Patinir
Years of life: |
1480 – 1525 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Quentin Matsys |
Art Movement: |
Northern Renaissance |
Painting School: |
Flemish School, Antwerp School |
Joachim Patinir (also called Patenier) was the first painter to make landscape his principal theme. He created a special type ...
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 ...
Niccolò dell’Abbate
Years of life: |
1512 – 1571 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Antonio Begarelli |
Artist's students: |
Ercole Abbate |
Art Movement: |
Mannerism (Late Renaissance) |
Painting School: |
Emilian School, School of Fontainebleau |
Master of decorative paintings and portraits. Born and educated in Modena, he later perfected his art in Bologna. His fantastical ...
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 ...
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 Bruegel (the Elder)
Years of life: |
1525 – 1569 |
Artist's Teachers: |
Pieter Coecke |
Art Movement: |
Northern Renaissance (Dutch and Flemish Renaissance) |
Painting School: |
Flemish School, Antwerp School |
Breughel was nicknamed "Peasant" of the subject matter of his paintings, not his character. He was an outstanding Flemish painter. ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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