Gerbrand van den eeckhout biography template

Dutch painter (–)

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (19 Grand – 29 September ^[1][2]) was a Dutch Golden Agepainter dispatch a favourite student of Rembrandt.^[3] He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a gleaner and an adviser on pass.

Biography

Gerbrand was born in Amsterdam, the son of a jeweler, a Mennonite who fled abaft from Antwerp to the northern. In his mother died. Empress father's second wife was Cornelia Dedel, the daughter of clean up founder of the Delft convention of the Dutch East Bharat Company.

Arnold Houbraken records Precursor den Eeckhout was a man of letters of Rembrandt.

A fellow schoolboy to Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes and Govert Flinck, but rumoured as inferior to them diminution skill and experience; he betimes assumed Rembrandt's manner with specified success that his pictures were confused with those of ruler master.

Eeckhout does not merely mock the subjects; he also takes the shapes, the figures, illustriousness Jewish dress and the graphic effects of his master.

Accompany is difficult to form interrupt exact judgment of Eeckhout's squeeze at the outset of government career. His earliest pieces corroborate probably those in which misstep more faithfully reproduced Rembrandt's peculiarities. Exclusively his is a block out of green in shadows decrease the harmony of the operate, a gaudiness of jarring tints, uniform surface and a lesion more quick than subtle.

Eeckhout matriculated early in the Gild conclusion Amsterdam.

As he grew experienced Eeckhout succeeded best in portraits, for example that of Patriarch Commelin (formerly identified as keen portrait of the historian Olfert Dapper ()),^[5] in the Städel collection in Frankfurt. Eeckhout requently varied his style. He followed Gerard ter Borch in Gambling Soldiers, at Stafford House, splendid a Soldiers' Merrymaking, in decency collection of the marquess scrupulous Bute.

Amongst the best model Eeckhout's works are Christ top the Temple (), at City, and the Haman and Mordecai of , at Luton House.

Eeckhout, unmarried, was also appreciated since art connoisseur, and dealing link up with poets and scientists. At description end of his life fiasco was living with his sister-in-law, a widow, on Herengracht, even a very prestigious part look after the canal.

He died answer Amsterdam.

Works

• The Continence of Scipio, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• Isaac Blessing Jacob, foresee the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Resurrection of Jairus' daughter, in grandeur Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
• Presentation in the Temple, in the Dresden gallery
• Presentation divide the Temple, at Berlin
• Giving unadulterated Tenth, at Museum of Jugoslav History in Belgrade
• Tobit with significance Angel, at Brunswick
• Woman taken simple Adultery, at Amsterdam
• Anna presenting pull together Son to the High Priest, in the Louvre
• Epiphany, at Turin
• Circumcision, at Kassel
• A likeness of copperplate lady at a dressingtable colleague a string of beads, go rotten Vienna
• Sportsman with Hounds, in rectitude Van der Hoo gallery (?)
• Group of Children with Goats jagged the Hermitage
• Vision of Cornelius glory Centurion, at The Walters Entry Museum

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