Hendrik van Minderhout

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Sea battle at Lowestoft, painting by Hendrik van Minderhout

Hendrik van Minderhout (* 1632 in Rotterdam ; † July 22, 1696 in Antwerp ) was a Dutch marine painter who worked mainly in the Flemish cities of Bruges and Antwerp and worked as a staffage painter with other Flemish landscape and perspective painters.

Life

Fish market in Antwerp

He was born in Rotterdam in 1632 and was known as the “Green Knight of Rotterdam” for unknown reasons. From 1652 he lived in Bruges and possibly stayed in Italy in 1653. In 1663 he joined the Guild of St Luke and from 1672 until his death van Minderhout lived in Antwerp, where he became a member of the local Guild of St Luke. He gave him a large canvas from an oriental port in order to be exempt from all guild fees. In 1673 he married his second wife Anna-Victoria Claus, with whom he had five children. Two of the children, Antoon (born September 26, 1675 - † December 22, 1705) and Willem August van Minderhout (born August 28, 1680 - † June 31, 1752) also became painters. In addition, Hendrik van Minderhout was the master of Lucas Smout the Younger .

Act

View of the port of Bruges

Hendrik van Minderhout mainly painted large views of seas and ports and naval battles. His subjects included realistic views such as those of the ports of Antwerp and Bruges , but also imaginary views of Mediterranean and oriental ports. It is believed that the great variety of works that bear the signature of Hendrik van Minderhout indicates the existence of two artists of the same name who were active at the same time. His later marine works are comparable to those of the Dutch seascape painter Willem van de Velde the Younger .

Van Minderhout was valued as a staffage painter by his Antwerp colleagues, and it is known that he contributed the figures to the works of local landscape and perspective painters such as Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg and Jacob Balthasar Peeters .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hendrik van Minderhout. Netherlands Institute for Art History, accessed June 12, 2020 (Dutch).
  2. ^ A b Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden: Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool . Antwerp 1883, p. 876 (Dutch).
  3. ↑ a b Trudy van Zadelhoff: Minderhout, Hendrik van. Ed .: Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press. January 10, 2015 (English).
  4. ↑ Hans Vlieghe: Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700 . Ed .: Pelican History of Art. Yale University Press, New Haven 1998, ISBN 0-300-07038-1 (English).
  5. ^ Jacob Peeters and Hendrik van Minderhout, pair of paintings Fantastic courtly architecture with figure staffage. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Minderhout, Hendrik van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1696
Place of death Antwerp , Belgium