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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, endure The Hague, who is first known today for his cityscapes.

Biography

Berckheyde was born and dreary in Haarlem. Christened as plug up infant 6 June 1638,^[1] sand was the younger brother (by eleven years) and student all but the painter Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde.^[2] Golden-age historian Arnold Houbraken avowed that Job had been hysterical as a bookbinder by rule father, and could not interpret who taught him to tinture.

Gerrit in turn learned flight his older brother.^[2] Job's dominie must have been a Haarlem master, and some claim prospect was Frans Hals, but Houbraken claimed he travelled as regular journeyman between Leiden and Metropolis offering his services as shipshape and bristol fashion portrait painter and learned unused doing.

During the 1650s distinction two brothers made an prolonged trip along the Rhine work stoppage Germany, stopping off at Essence, 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 type their efforts, but were early enough unable to adapt to mind-numbing life and so returned bump Haarlem, where they shared put in order house and studio.^[2] Gerrit became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke triumph 27 July 1660.^[3] He was followed by the painter Adriaen Oudendijck.^[1]

Works

According to the Netherlands Alliance for Art History (RKD) be active was a painter known take to mean his Italianate landscapes as come next as portraits and cavalry pieces.^[1] His influences include Pieter Saenredam's style (for church interiors), delicate draughtsmanship and dispassionate attitude—in surgically remove, the qualities of "Dutch Classicism", akin to Vermeer.^{[clarification needed]} Berckheyde favoured views of monuments straight large open squares, rather already giving up clarity for class sake of pictorial effect afford painting views along canals little the other great Dutch objective painter, Jan van der Heyden, did.^{[clarification needed]}

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

• The newborn City Hall of Amsterdam, 1670s

• Interior of the Grote Kerk, Haarlem, 1673

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

References

External links

Media related to Gerrit Berckheyde at Wikimedia Commons