Hendrick van Uylenburgh

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Hendrick van Uylenburgh (* around 1584 or 1589 ; † 1661 ) was a Dutch art dealer in the Dutch Golden Age who promoted painters such as Rembrandt , Govert Flinck and Ferdinand Bol .

Van Uylenburgh came from a Mennonite family who originally came from Friesland , but emigrated to Poland because of their faith and settled in Krakow , later in Gdansk , where Hendrick van Uylenburgh's father worked as a royal cabinet maker . Hendrick was trained as a painter ; but he also traded in luxury goods, including paintings from the Netherlands. Presumably he never worked as a painter, at least no works have survived.

Hendrick van Uylenburgh was married to Maria van Eyck. The couple had three sons, Gerrit van Uylenburgh , who took over his father's art business, Abraham Uylenburgh , the Irish court painter, and Isaac, who became a draftsman, and at least four daughters, Sara, Anna, Magdalena and Susanna, of whom at least one, by name, did not survive , was a well-known contemporary illustrator.

In 1625, the acquisition of the Amsterdam corner house on Sint-Anthonisbreestraat and the Zwanenburgwal by Hendrick van Uylenburgh, where the studio of the recently deceased portrait painter Cornelis van der Voort (1576–1624) was housed. It was the neighboring house of today, at the Jodenbreestraat located Rembrant House . Uylenburgh must have left his exile around 1625. He quickly made good contacts in Amsterdam, and his business soon became the city's leading art dealer. Pieter Lastman lived very close to his shop, also on Sint-Antoniesbreesluis (today Sint Antoniesbreestraat) , with whom Rembrandt van Rijn studied for six months in 1625. Rembrandt and van Uylenburgh may have already met at that time, in any case Rembrandt lived between 1631 and 1635 as a "boarder" in Uylenburgh's house and in 1631, even before he moved to Amsterdam, contributed 1000 guilders to Uylenburgh's art trade by selling them to him large sum made available as a loan. Around the same time, van Uylenburgh opened an art studio in the property, which Rembrandt had directed from 1631. The commission to portray the Amsterdam Surgeons' Guild ( The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp ) was probably mediated by van Uylenburgh.

The Rembrandt House on Amsterdam's Jodenbreestraat

In 1634 Rembrandt married Uylenburgh's niece Saskia van Uylenburgh . In 1635, Uylenburgh's collaboration with Rembrandt came to an end; Rembrandt and Saskia moved into a rented apartment in the Nieuwe Doelenstraat (and later moved to the Zwanenburgerstraat . In January 1639, Rembrandt acquired a property on the Breestraat (now Jodenbreestraat ), today's Rembrandt House, where he would live for twenty years.)

Van Uylenburgh moved to the Dam in 1647 , where he rented the De Bril house from the city next to what would later become Amsterdam's town hall, Paleis op de Dam . His art trade was taken over by Joannes de Renialme . In 1654 van Uylenburgh had to move to the Westermarkt due to rent debts . His studio was housed on Lauriergracht in a property owned by Govert Flinck and Jürgen Ovens . Flinck is considered to be the successor to the studio management.

Hendrick van Uylenburgh died in 1661 and was buried in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam .

His son Gerrit took over his father's art trade and hit the headlines when 13 pictures were not sold to the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg . He had a total of 35 expert opinions prepared on the authenticity of the works, including by Jan Lievens , Melchior de Hondecoeter , Gerbrand van den Eeckhout and Johannes Vermeer . However, his reputation was so damaged that he had to file for bankruptcy in 1675 .

literature

  • Hendrik Fredrik Wijnman: Rembrandt en Hendrick van Uylenburgh te Amsterdam. In: Maandblad Amstelodamum , Vol. 43 (1956), pp. 94-102 ISSN  0165-9278 (Dutch)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Strauss et al .: The Rembrandt Documents . Abaris 1979, ISBN 0-913870-68-4 . P. 251
personal data
SURNAME Uylenburgh, Hendrick van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1584 or 1589
DATE OF DEATH 1661