Adam Pijnacker

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The port of Schiedam (1650-1652)

Adam Christiaensz Pijnacker or Pynacker (* 1620 or 1622 in Schiedam ; buried on March 28, 1673 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter , mainly of landscapes .

Live and act

Pijnacker was born the son of a wine merchant who was a member of the Vroedschap , the city government. He traveled to Italy and was gone for three years. In 1658 he converted to Catholicism to marry Eva Maria de Geest, the daughter of Wybrand de Geest . Two years later, his father-in-law painted a portrait of him as a counterpart to an earlier portrait of his wife. In Schiedam he baptized two children, but from 1661 he lived on the Rozengracht in Amsterdam until his death .

Wedding portraits

De Geest was an extremely successful portrait painter, who portrayed his daughter in 1652 and his new son-in-law two years after their wedding:

  • Wybrand de Geest: Adam Pijnacker

  • Eva de Geest, Pijnacker's wife

Pijnacker is seen as an example of an Italianate landscape painter traveling to Italy , such as Jan Both , Jan Baptist Weenix , Nicolaes Berchem and Jan Asselyn . He specialized in decorating entire rooms. The poet P. Verhoek wrote a poem about one of his decorated rooms.

literature

  • Joseph Eduard Wessely:  Pynaker, Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 784.
  • Wassenbergh, A. (1969) Het huwelijk van Adam Pijnacker en Eva Maria de Geest . In: De Vrije Fries, diel 49, pp. 93-95.

Web links

Commons : Adam Pijnacker  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Usually pijnackers in Dutch sources, but pynackers in English-language sources. For example, Adam Pynacker the preferred spelling of Getty Union and managed by the National Gallery of Art in Washington used ( Memento of the original June 12, 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , the Fitzwilliam Museum in and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Etc. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nga.gov @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
  2. ↑ Pijnacker, Adam  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the RKD database@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rkd.nl  
  3. ↑ Adam Pynaker biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken , with the kind permission of the Digital Library for Dutch Literature
personal data
SURNAME Pijnacker, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pynaker, Adam; Pynacker, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Schiedam
DATE OF DEATH 1673
Place of death Amsterdam