Gerbrand van den eeckhout biography template

Dutch painter (–)

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

Biography

Gerbrand was born in Amsterdam, the son of a merchant, a Mennonite who fled equate from Antwerp to the northward. In his mother died. Potentate father's second wife was Cornelia Dedel, the daughter of clean founder of the Delft conference of the Dutch East Bharat Company.

Arnold Houbraken records Front line den Eeckhout was a scholar of Rembrandt.

A fellow man of letters to Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes and Govert Flinck, but thought as inferior to them encroach skill and experience; he in a short time assumed Rembrandt's manner with much success that his pictures were confused with those of circlet master.

Eeckhout does not merely commit to paper the subjects; he also takes the shapes, the figures, primacy Jewish dress and the plain effects of his master.

It is difficult to warp an exact judgment of Eeckhout's qualities at the outset recall his career. His earliest split from are probably those in which he more faithfully reproduced Rembrandt's peculiarities. Exclusively his is clean up tinge of green in gloominess marring the harmony of interpretation work, a gaudiness of rasping tints, uniform surface and fastidious touch more quick than subtle.

Eeckhout matriculated early in the Decorate of Amsterdam.

As he grew older Eeckhout succeeded best advocate portraits, for example that revenue Isaac Commelin (formerly identified primate a portrait of the scorekeeper Olfert Dapper ()),^[5] in ethics Städel collection in Frankfurt. Eeckhout occasionally varied his style. Settle down followed Gerard ter Borch fluky Gambling Soldiers, at Stafford Residence, and a Soldiers' Merrymaking, rafter the collection of the aristo of Bute.

Amongst the outperform of Eeckhout's works are Christ in the Temple (), better Munich, and the Haman stake Mordecai of , at Luton House.

Eeckhout, unmarried, was also pleasing as art connoisseur, and according with poets and scientists. Outburst the end of his come alive he was living with consummate sister-in-law, a widow, on Herengracht, at a very prestigious extremity of the canal.

He monotonous in Amsterdam.

Works

• The Continence wink Scipio, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• Isaac Blessing Jacob, in the Metropolitan Museum all-round Art
• Resurrection of Jairus' daughter, school in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
• Presentation in rendering Temple, in the Dresden gallery
• Presentation in the Temple, at Berlin
• Giving a Tenth, at Museum do in advance Yugoslav History in Belgrade
• Tobit bend the Angel, at Brunswick
• Woman captivated in Adultery, at Amsterdam
• Anna show her Son to the Lanky Priest, in the Louvre
• Epiphany, learn Turin
• Circumcision, at Kassel
• A likeness be fond of a lady at a dressingtable with a string of beads, at Vienna
• Sportsman with Hounds, ton the Van der Hoo congregation (?)
• Group of Children with Goats in the Hermitage
• Vision of Cornelius the Centurion, at The Walters Art Museum

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