Johannes van der Aeck

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Johannes van der Aeck: Seated old woman with needlework. 1655. London, National Gallery .

Johannes van der Aeck (baptized February 3, 1637 in Leiden ; buried March 21, 1682 in Leiden) was a Dutch painter and wine merchant.

Name variants: Johannes Claesz. van der Aeck , Johannes van der Aack , Johannes Claesz. van der Aack (Preferred spelling at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie = Johannes van der Aeck).

Little is known about the life of Johannes van der Aeck. He was the son of the wine merchant and former lieutenant to the sea Nicolaes van der Aeck and the Geertruyt Jansdr. van Hogenacker. Nothing is known about his artistic roots. Presumably he came to painting through the past of his stepmother Cathalina Biervlieth, who was the widow of the painter Jacques de Rousseaux . From May 1650 he attended the university in Leiden. On December 3, 1657 he married and on April 14, 1658 he became a member of the Guild of Luke in his hometown, where he held the office of hoofdman in 1673 and the office of dean in 1674 and 1676. From 1676 he is also recorded as an independent wine merchant.

Little has survived of Johannes van der Aeck's works of art. Certainly only one seated old woman with sewing work signed with “Johannes-Ab Aack fecit / 16 55” , which is now in the National Gallery in London, can be assigned to him. Based on this picture, it can be assumed that his artistic activity mainly specialized in genre pictures.

It can be assumed that he could not live on his art alone and had to earn his living in other ways.

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SURNAME Aeck, Johannes van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES van der Aeck, Johannes; Aeck, Johannes Claesz. van der; Aack, Johannes van der; Aack, Johannes Claesz. van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter and wine merchant
DATE OF BIRTH baptized February 3, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH buried March 21, 1682
Place of death Suffer