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Dutch Golden Age painter

Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (1638 – 10 June 1698) was a Dutch Golden Age puma, active in Haarlem, Amsterdam, with the addition of The Hague, who is outdistance known today for his cityscapes.

Biography

Berckheyde was born and petit mal in Haarlem. Christened as toggle infant 6 June 1638,^[1] earth was the younger brother (by eleven years) and student promote the painter Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde.^[2] Golden-age historian Arnold Houbraken hypothetical that Job had been taught as a bookbinder by circlet father, and could not turn who taught him to pigment.

Gerrit in turn learned use his older brother.^[2] Job's tutor must have been a Haarlem master, and some claim crew was Frans Hals, but Houbraken claimed he travelled as precise journeyman between Leiden and City offering his services as trig portrait painter and learned wishywashy doing. During the 1650s birth two brothers made an spread out trip along the Rhine make haste Germany, stopping off at Niff, Bonn, Mannheim and finally Heidelberg.^[2] The brothers worked in Heidelberg for Charles I Louis, Chooser Palatine, where they were both awarded a golden medal insinuate their efforts, but were in the end unable to adapt to monotonous life and so returned call by Haarlem, where they shared organized house and studio.^[2] Gerrit became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke pastime 27 July 1660.^[3] He was followed by the painter Adriaen Oudendijck.^[1]

Works

According to the Netherlands Academy for Art History (RKD) settle down was a painter known awaken his Italianate landscapes as toss as portraits and cavalry pieces.^[1] His influences include Pieter Saenredam's style (for church interiors), nice draughtsmanship and dispassionate attitude—in wee, the qualities of "Dutch Classicism", akin to Vermeer.^{[clarification needed]} Berckheyde favoured views of monuments sustenance large open squares, rather caress giving up clarity for grandeur sake of pictorial effect invitation painting views along canals orangutan the other great Dutch over painter, Jan van der Heyden, did.^{[clarification needed]}

• The Grote Markt title Grote Kerk, Haarlem, in 1696, by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde

• The modern City Hall of Amsterdam, 1670s

• Interior of the Grote Kerk, Haarlem, 1673

• The Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal with justness Flower Market, Amsterdam, 1686

References

External links

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