Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

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Gerbrand van den Eeckhout: Self-portrait (1659)

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (born August 19, 1621 in Amsterdam , † September 22, 1674 there ) was a Dutch painter .

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, son of a goldsmith, was an apprentice to Rembrandt . He was gifted and far superior to Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck . His style resembles that of Rembrandt most of all of his students. Van den Eeckhout had numerous styles. He painted portraits, genre paintings and mostly historical paintings. He also provided designs for book illustrations and ornamental prints. As a colorist , van den Eeckhout is original.

Life

His paternal grandfather, Pieter Lodewijcksz (1544–1619), was one of the emigrants who fled the Spanish Catholic Netherlands to the northern provinces due to religious persecution. Around 1588 he came to Amsterdam as a shopkeeper . His son, the goldsmith Jan Pietersz van den Eeckhout (1584–1652), married the shoemaker's daughter Grietie Claes Lydeckers (1586–1631) there in 1606. The marriage had nine children, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout was the eighth. Five of his siblings died in childhood. After his mother's death, his father married Cornelia Dedel (1594-1660), daughter of the wealthy director of the Dutch East India Company from Delft , in 1633 , which significantly increased the family's social status.

Posh Society on a Terrace , 1652, Worcester Art Museum

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout's training is not well documented. According to Arnold Houbraken , he was a student of Rembrandt. Since his oldest known paintings date from 1641, it is assumed that an apprenticeship took place between around 1635 and 1640/41. In addition to Rembrand's influence, his works also show Pieter Lastman's , presumably only indirectly, since Lastman died in 1633 and Rembrand passed on his stylistic legacy as Lastman's student. Gerbrand van den Eeckhout was one of the most productive painters from the Rembrand environment, his paintings show a great thematic variety. He mainly painted biblical histories, as well as mythological and liturgical subjects as well as portraits and landscapes. From the beginning of the 1650s he often portrayed elegant societies and groups making music, staying in rooms or on terraces. He plays an important role in the further development of the painting of elegant conversational pieces , as established by Willem Buytewech and Esaias van de Velde before him and later continued by Gerard ter Borch and Pieter de Hooch .

The Heads of the Amsterdam Cooperative and Wine Publishers' Guild , 1673, Amsterdam Museum

His brother Jan van den Eeckhout († 1669), a successful wine merchant and guild leader, gave him an important private commission in 1657 for a group portrait of four heads of the cooperative and wine publishers' guild ( National Gallery ). In 1673 he painted the same motif again. Overall, portraits, because they are factual and unsuitable for representative purposes, only make up a small part of his oeuvre; the portrayed often came from his family circle. His historical paintings, however, soon found steady buyers, especially in the 1660s Gerbrand van den Eeckhout created a large number of works. In addition to painting, he also worked as a draftsman and eraser, designed title coppers and book illustrations. He was also active as an amateur poet and exchanged verses with friends. For example, in 1957 he wrote a poem of praise for his friend, painter Willem Schellinks (1627–1678).

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout remained unmarried throughout his life. The last years of his life he lived with Maria van Schilperoort, the widow of his brother Jan, in a house on the Herengracht . He died at the age of 53 on September 22, 1674. On September 29, he was buried in the Oudezijds Kapel in Amsterdam. He bequeathed his artistic estate to a nephew and a sum of money to his longtime friend, the landscape painter Roelant Roghman (1627–1692). The otherwise unknown Thomas Peter Binnius is proven to be the only student of Gerbrand van den Eeckhout.

Works (selection)

Hanna brings Samuel to Eli , around 1665, Louvre
  • Jacob's Dream of the Ladder to Heaven (1642), oil on panel 75.2 × 165 cm, National Museum Warsaw
  • Isaac blesses Jacob (1642), oil on canvas 100.6 × 128.3 cm, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The field worker from Gibea offers accommodation to Levite and his concubine (1645), oil on canvas 135 × 168.5 cm, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
  • The Prophet Elisa and the Sunamitin (1649), oil on canvas, 103 × 125 cm, National Museum Warsaw
  • Resting Hunter (around 1652–55), oil on canvas, 36 × 45 cm Amsterdam Museum
  • Boas and Ruth (1651), oil on canvas 52.7 × 61.5 cm, in the Kunsthalle Bremen
  • Elegant company with a singing couple on a terrace (around 1652–54; A Musical Party ), oil on canvas 50.8 × 64.5 cm, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Noble Society on a Terrace (1652, A Party on a Terrace ), oil on canvas 51.4 × 62.2 cm, in the Worcester Art Museum
  • The Heads of the Amsterdam Cooperative and Wine Publishers' Guild (1657), oil on canvas 163 × 197 cm, National Gallery, London
  • Eliezer and Rebekka at the Well (1661), oil on canvas 76.5 × 108 cm, National Gallery, London
  • Sophonisbe receives the cup of poison (1664), Duke Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig
  • The Prophet Elisa and the Sunamitin (1664), oil on canvas 110 × 155 cm, Szépművészeti Múzeum , Budapest
  • Hanna brings Samuel to Eli (around 1665), oil on panel, 117 × 143 cm, in the Louvre in Paris
  • Simson and Delila (1668), oil on canvas 137 × 156.5 cm, in the Kunsthalle Bremen
  • The Heads of the Amsterdam Cooperative and Wine Publishers' Guild (1673), oil on canvas 211.5 × 253 cm, Amsterdam Museum
  • The adulteress before Christ, in Amsterdam
  • Christ teaching as a boy in the temple, in Munich
  • Presentation of Christ in the temple
  • Mercury, killing Argus, in Berlin
  • David before Abigail, in Schleissheim

literature

Web links

Commons : Gerbrand van den Eeckhout  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. In: Walter A. Liedtke (Ed.): Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. P. 185.
  2. ↑ a b General Artist Lexicon. Volume 32: Ebersbach – Eimbke. P. 233.
  3. ↑ Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. In: Walter A. Liedtke (Ed.): Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. P. 186.
  4. ↑ The field worker from Gibea offers the Levite and his concubine accommodation smb-digital.de. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ De rustende jager, 1652–1655 hdl.handle.net. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  6. ^ Kunsthalle Bremen - List of paintings ( Memento from May 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Gerbrand van den Eeckhout nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  8. ↑ De overlieden van het Kuipers- en Wijnverlatersgilde 1673 hdl.handle.net. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eeckhout, Gerbrandt van den
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1621
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1674
Place of death Amsterdam , Netherlands