Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606 - 1669) - Netherlands (Leiden)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (/ˈrɛmbrænt, -brɑːnt/ Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin] ( listen) July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Du......
Jan Vermeer (1632 - 1675) - Netherlands (Delft)
Baroque, Pointillism, Dutch Golden Age
Johannes Vermeer (/vərˈmɪər/ Dutch: [joːˈɦɑnəs fərˈmeːr] October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he pro......
Frans Hals (1582 - 1666) - Belgium (Antwerp)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Frans Hals the Elder (/hɑːls/ Dutch: [ɦɑls] c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group port......
Jan Van Goyen (1596 - 1656) - Netherlands (Leiden)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑn vɑŋ ˈɣoːjə(n)] 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known. Jan van Goyen was the son of a shoemaker and started as an apprentice in Leiden, ......
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (1620 - 1695) - Netherlands (Dordrecht)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 – November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late aft......
Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem (1562 - 1638) - Netherlands (Haarlem)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638), Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist. Born in Haarlem, Cornelis Corneliszoon was a pupil of Pieter Pietersz in Haarlem, and later Gillis Coignet in Antwerp......
Salomon Van Ruysdael (1602 - 1670) - Mnac. (Veleros Junto A Una Aldea)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden – buried November 3, 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael. According to Arnold Houbraken he was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings. His father sent his sons Jacob and Salomon to learn Latin an......
Paulus Potter (1625 - 1654) - Netherlands (Enkhuizen)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Paulus Potter (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpʌulɵs ˈpɔtər] 20 November 1625 (baptised) – 17 January 1654 (buried)) was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point. Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he succeeded in producing about 100 paintings, working continuously. Paulus Potter was bo......
Paulus Pietersz Potter (1625 - 1654) - Netherlands (Enkhuizen)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Paulus Potter (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpʌulɵs ˈpɔtər] 20 November 1625 (baptised) – 17 January 1654 (buried)) was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point. Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he succeeded in producing about 100 paintings, working continuously. Paulus Potter was bo......
Gerard Ter Borch (1617 - 1681) - Netherlands (Zwolle)
Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
This article is for Gerard ter Borch the Younger, for the other artist of the same name see Gerard ter Borch the Elder Gerard ter Borch (Dutch: [ɣəˈrɑrt tɛr ˈbɔrx] December 1617 – 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg (Dutch: [ɣəˈrɑrt tɛrˈbɵrx]), was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He in......
Cornelis Van Poelenburgh (1595 - 1667) - Netherlands (Utrecht)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
Cornelis van Poelenburgh or Cornelis van Poelenburch (1594 – 12 August 1667 ), was a Dutch landscape painter and draughtsman. He was the leading representative of the first generation of Dutch landscape painters who were active in Rome in the early 17th century. He was known for small-scale paintings depicting Italianate landscapes with small figur......
Gerard Ter Borch The Younger (1617 - 1681) - Netherlands (Zwolle)
Dutch Golden Age, Dutch Golden Age
This article is for Gerard ter Borch the Younger, for the other artist of the same name see Gerard ter Borch the Elder Gerard ter Borch (Dutch: [ɣəˈrɑrt tɛr ˈbɔrx] December 1617 – 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg (Dutch: [ɣəˈrɑrt tɛrˈbɵrx]), was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He in......