Arnold Boonen
Arnold (Arnoldus) Boonen (also Boontje ; * December 16, 1669 in Dordrecht ; † October 2, 1729 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch painter and portrait painter with a special ability to depict detailed group representations of well-known people and to genre painting .
Famous painters were in his apprenticeship such as Cornelis Troost (1696–1750), Philip van Dijk , Jan Maurits Quinkhard , Cornelis Pronk , Arnout Rentinck and others like his younger brother Jasper Boonen . His works can be found in the collections of large museums such as the Rijksmuseum , the Dordrechts Museum and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem .
Life
Arnold Boonen was the son of a merchant and apprenticed to Arnoldus Verbuys (1682) in Dordrecht and from 1683 to 1689 with Godfried Schalcken . Gerard Dou was also formative for his style , which is particularly evident in Boonen's typical motifs of night scenes by candlelight.
In the creative period from 1694 to 1695 he traveled to Germany and worked in Frankfurt am Main , Mainz and Darmstadt . He made a name for himself in Germany as a portrait painter and drew many famous people such as Prince-Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn and the Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt Ernst Ludwig . After returning he settled in Amsterdam in 1696 and married Anna Maria Mattheus in 1703. There he also had great success as a portraitist. When they were in Amsterdam, he painted Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia in 1698 , John Churchill in 1710 , 1st Duke van Marlborough , in 1717 the Russian Tsar Peter I the Great and in 1723 Prince Wilhelm IV of Orange .
Works (selection)
The regents of the Leper House in 1715
Portrait of the painter Jan van Huijsum about 1720
Young man with glass at table ca.1725
Merchant in his office before 1729
literature
- Wegener UB: Arnold Boonen . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 639.
- Ernst Wilhelm Moes : Boonen, Arnold . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 332 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Peter Marijnis: De Zichtbaere Werelt: sign art uit de Gouden Eeuw in Hollands oudste stad . Exhibition catalog Dordrecht 1992/93, Waanders, Zwolle 1992, pp. 99-102
Web links
- Literature by and about Arnold Boonen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Johan van Gool: De nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen . 's Gravenhage, 1750, pp. 294-309
- ↑ a b Boonen, Arnold ( 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. , at: Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
- ↑ a b c d e Ernst Wilhelm Moes : : Boonen (Arnold). In: PC Molhuysen and PJ Blok (eds.): Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 2, p. 211 (1911-1937)
- ↑ Junko Aono: Confronting the Golden Age: imitation and innovation in Dutch genre painting 1680-1750. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2015, ISBN 978-90-8964-568-5 , p. 155.
- ↑ Boonen, Arnold. In: van der Aa et al .: Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden . Volume 2-1, 1854, pp. 885-887.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boonen, Arnold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boonen, Arnoldus; Boontje, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and portraitist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1669 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dordrecht , the Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1729 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam , Netherlands |