Jan van Huchtenburgh

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The Siege of Namur , 1695
Attack on a convoy , around 1670/90
The Battle of Ramillies
The Battle of the Boyne

Jan van Huchtenburgh (* before November 20, 1647 in Haarlem , † July 1733 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch battle painter , etcher and draftsman , but also a publisher and art dealer .

life and work

Jan van Huchtenburgh learned from Thomas Wijck and then went to Rome at a very young age to his brother Jacob van Huchtenburg , who painted landscapes in Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem's manner . This study trip to Italy was to have a lasting impact on the artist's style.

After his brother died in 1667, Jan went to Paris to see Adam Frans van der Meulen , the court painter to King Louis XIV , with whom he further deepened his training. In 1670 he returned to Haarlem, where he started a picture trade. From 1708 to 1717 he accompanied the Austrian field marshal Prince Eugene of Savoy on his campaigns and painted his battles in large cycles, which were then also collected in one of the artist's paintings (see literature). Most of his paintings are now in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin .

In 1711 van Huchtenburgh went to the court of the Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz , where he achieved a great reputation. Later he lived mostly in The Hague and died in Amsterdam in 1733.

Huchtenburgh's pictures are reminiscent of those by Philips Wouwerman in style , but they are more colorful and brutal in execution. He also pricked and etched numerous sheets of paper after his and van der Meulen's pictures.

Works (excerpt)

  • The storming of Belgrade in 1688 . Oil on canvas, 71 × 88 cm. State gallery in the Plassenburg , Kulmbach
  • The capture of Marshal Tallard near Höchstädt in 1704 . Oil on canvas, 65 × 75 cm. State gallery in the Plassenburg, Kulmbach
  • The Siege of Namur . Oil on canvas, 196.5 × 250.5 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna , on permanent loan to the Army History Museum, Vienna
  • Equestrian fight . Oil on canvas, 160 × 192 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Rider attack . Oil on canvas, 107 × 145.5 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Attack on a train column , 1670/90, oil on canvas, 53.5 × 62.5 cm, Mauritshuis
  • Portrait of Prince Heinrich Casimir von Nassau-Dietz , 1692, oil on canvas, 121 × 165 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • The Battle of Ramillies , 1706/33, oil on canvas, 53.5 × 62.5 cm, Mauritshuis
  • The Battle of the Boyne , 1690/1733, oil on canvas, 110 × 169 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • The Battle of Staffarda on August 18, 1690 , from: Jean Dumont baron de Carlscroon and Jean Rousset de Missy, Histoire militaire du Prinz Eugen, 1729, copper engraving, 53 × 61 cm, Belvedere , Vienna
  • Equestrian battle in the first anteroom of the imperial apartment of the New Residence in Bamberg .

literature

  • Jean Dumont: Batailles gagnées par le ... Prince Fr. Eugène de Savoye sur les ennemis de la foi, et sur ceux de l'empreur et l'Empire, en Hongrie, en Italie, en Allemagne et aux Pays-Bas /. .. gravée en taille-douce par ... Jean Huchtenburg ... avec des explications historiques par DuMont . LaHaye (The Hague) 1725.
  • Giancarlo Sestieri: Battle Painters. Italian and Foreign Masters of the XVII and XVIII centuries , Rom 1999.
  • Helge Siefert: To the glory of the hero. History and genre painting of the 17th and 18th centuries , Munich 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helge Siefert, To the glory of the hero. History and genre painting of the 17th and 18th centuries , Munich 1993, 192
  2. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall I - From the beginnings of the standing army to the end of the 17th century , Salzburg 1982 p. 32

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Huchtenburgh, Jan van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huchtenburg, Jan van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH before November 20, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem
DATE OF DEATH July 1733
Place of death Amsterdam