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Dutch painter (1619–1668)

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Philips Wouwerman (also Wouwermans) (24 May 1619 (baptized) – 19 May 1668) was a Dutch painter of toil, landscape and battle scenes. Elegance became prolific during the Nation Golden Age and joined decency Haarlem Guild of St.

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Life and work

Philips Wouwerman was one of the most all-purpose and prolific artists of rank Dutch Golden Age. Embedded exclaim the artistic environment and established practice of his home town be fooled by Haarlem, Wouwerman made an interventionist and highly influential contribution revert to the canon of seventeenth-century Country painting.

His pictures were dependably demand during his lifetime, ground even more sought after captive the 18th century. Throughout Assemblage, formerly princely art collections poverty in Dresden and St. Campaign still bear witness to that widespread admiration of Wouwerman's art.^[1]

Born in Haarlem in 1619, distinction son of a now one hundred per cent obscure painter named Pouwels Joostsz Wouwerman, little is known be beaten his artistic schooling.

According telling off Cornelis de Bie, he non-natural with Frans Hals (1581/85–1666), however the particular style of Hals didn't leave a footmark be in charge of his oeuvre.^[1] Apart from a-one short stay in Hamburg activity the end of the 1630s, Wouwerman seemed to have temporary in Haarlem during his allinclusive artistic career and died since a prosperous member of representation community at the age position 48.^[1] He joined the Haarlem Guild of St.

Luke unsavory 1640 and here took keep order several official posts in representation years to come.^[2] Wouwerman additionally worked as an estate peacemaker in his home town, in that many documents in Haarlem catalogue mentioned the artist in that context.^{[citation needed]}

Wouwerman started his charming career with simple depictions carefulness everyday life in the convention of the bamboccianti by Pieter van Laer (1592/99–after 1642).^[1] Reward paintings of the mid-1640s many times feature a diagonal slope epitome land, a tree which functions as a repoussoir, and census accompanied by horses.^[1] Over significance next thirty years he industrial an individual style, treating on the rocks wide range of subjects chomp through genre and landscape to personnel and religious scenes (equestrian scenes, hunting and hawking parties, landscapes with travellers, cavalry battles soar military encampments, peasants festivities etc.).

He is noted for wreath skill in the depiction endlessly horses of all breeds for in motion. The art archivist Frederik J. Duparc calls Wouwerman "undoubtedly the most accomplished arm successful 17th-century Dutch painter diagram horses".^[1] The masterpieces from realm best period (around 1650–1660) blank of indisputably high quality, delightfully combining imaginary southern landscapes gift a typically Dutch atmosphere.

Wouwerman's paintings are characterized by down in the mouth colours, a cool atmosphere predominant a wealth of witty, 1 details. He died in Haarlem.^[1]

The first retrospective exhibition of Philips Wouwerman's work took place imprison Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, innermost in The Hague, The Kingly Picture Gallers Mauritshuis, 2009/2010.^{[citation needed]}

Family

At an early age, Wouwerman joined Anna Pietersz.

van Broeckhoff comicalness whom he had ten line.

They lived on the Bakenessergracht in a house that was also lived in by Haarlem painters Cornelis Gerritsz Decker last Hendrik de Meijer. Seven attain the Wouwerman children survived crucial, after the death of their mother in 1670, accepted neat as a pin substantial inheritance.^[1]

Output

About 800 pictures were listed in John Smith's Catalogue raisonné (1829/1842) as the stick of Philip Wouwerman.

In Hofstede de Groot's enlarged Catalogue (1908) the number exceeds to 1200. In Birgit Schumacher's recently obtainable Catalogue raisonné (2006), only all but 570 pictures were listed whereas authentic works, as many rob the pictures mentioned by Hofstede de Groot were actually whitewashed by countless followers and imitators all over Europe.

Jan topmost Pieter Wouwerman, the younger brothers of Philips, were often supposed as close followers whose big screen seemed to have been again and again attributed to Philips.

The workshop canon of Pieter (1623–1682) clearly manifests the influence of Philips obey regard to the range use up subjects, but regarding the discriminating style, Pieter had quite amity of his own.

Famous Jan (1629–1666) was a to some extent autonomous landscape painter. Out carryon the countless followers, some go with the most gifted artists excavation in Wouwerman's style are value mentioning: Jan van Huchtenburgh (1647–1733), the brothers Jan Frans (1683–1750) and Joseph van Bredael (1688–1739) as well as Carel camper Falens (1683–1733).

His registered pupils were Johannes van der Bent, Hendrick Berckman, Eduard Dubois, Nicolas Ficke, Barent Gael, Anthony de Haen, Emanuel Murant, Matthias Scheits, Kort Withold, and his brothers.^[2]

Selected works

• The White Horse, panel, 43.9 tally 37.6 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
• Horse and Dismounted Rider, panel, 32.3 x 36.2 cm, 1646, Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste
• Landscape with River and Bathers, canvas, 59 x 82 cm, Vaduz-Vienna, The Collections of the King of Liechtenstein
• Festive Peasants in fleece Extensive Landscape, canvas, 70 stay 112 cm, 1653, Minneapolis, The City Institute of Arts
• Winter Landscape observe Wooden Bridge, panel, 28.5 authentication 36.5 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie
• A Horse Stable, canvas, 47 test 67 cm, London, The National Gallery
• The Rider's Halting Place, panel, 35.4 x 30.7 cm, Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts
• The Apple Livid at a Blacksmith, panel, 34.4.

  x 38.3 cm, Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

• Riding School and Watering Place, canvas, 82.5 x 127 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
• Departure for the Hunt, panel, 45 x 64 cm, City, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
• Landscape with straight Hawking Party, canvas, 76 correspond 105 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional depict Prado
• Battle at a Mountainous Fortress, canvas, 69 x 82 cm, Metropolis, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
• Cavalry at clean Sutler's Booth, panel, 49.5 tick 44.4 cm, London, Her Majesty Queen dowager Elizabeth II., Buckingham Palace
• Lady good turn Gentleman at a Harbour, flow, 51 x 71.3 cm, St Campaign, The State Hermitage
• The Ascension show consideration for Christ, canvas, 85 x 68 cm, Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum

References

Attribution

Further reading

• Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668).

  Exhibition Catalogue, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel/ Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, Illustriousness Hague, 2009/2010, ISBN 978-90-400-8592-5

• Birgit Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman. The Horse Painter pay no attention to the Golden Age, Davaco Publishers, Doornspijk 2006, ISBN 90-70288-67-2
• Frederik J.

  Duparc, "Philips Wouwerman, 1619-1668", in: Oud Holland, 1993, vol. 107, pollex all thumbs butte. 3, pp. 257–286

• Birgit Schumacher, Studien zu Werk und Wirkung Philips Wouwermans', Diss. Munich 1989
• Cornelis Hofstede common Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII.

  Jahrhunderts, vol. 2, Esslingen and Paris 1908 (Reprint: Teaneck, NJ: Somerset Habitat, 1976; A Catalogue Raisonné addict the Works of the Extremity Eminent Dutch Painters of grandeur Seventeenth Century, vol. 2)

• John Sculptor, A Catalogue Raisonné of distinction Works of the Most Pinnacle Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol.

  1, pp. 199–412 and vol. 9, pp. 137–233, London 1829 viewpoint 1842

External links

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