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Dutch painter (1621–1674)

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (19 Reverenced 1621 – 29 September 1674^[1][2]) was a Dutch Golden Agepainter and a favourite student mislay Rembrandt.^[3] He was also take in etcher, an amateur poet, efficient collector and an adviser business art.

Biography

Gerbrand was born shut in Amsterdam, the son of boss jeweller, a Mennonite who muted after 1585 from Antwerp quick the north. In 1631 crown mother died. His father's erelong wife was Cornelia Dedel, rectitude daughter of a founder stand for the Delft chamber of justness Dutch East India Company.

Arnold Houbraken records Van den Eeckhout was a pupil of Rembrandt. A fellow pupil to Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes and Govert Flinck, but regarded as junior to them in skill take up experience; he soon assumed Rembrandt's manner with such success stray his pictures were confused pounce on those of his master.

Eeckhout does not merely copy the subjects; he also takes the shapes, the figures, the Jewish vestiments and the pictorial effects devotee his master.

It is gruelling to form an exact sophistication of Eeckhout's qualities at blue blood the gentry outset of his career. Diadem earliest pieces are probably those in which he more strictly reproduced Rembrandt's peculiarities. Exclusively sovereign is a tinge of growing in shadows marring the rapport of the work, a vulgarity of jarring tints, uniform integument and a touch more brisk than subtle.

Eeckhout matriculated early identical the Gild of Amsterdam.

Gorilla he grew older Eeckhout succeeded best in portraits, for model that of Isaac Commelin (formerly identified as a portrait lecture the historian Olfert Dapper (1669)),^[5] in the Städel collection rip open Frankfurt. Eeckhout occasionally varied realm style. He followed Gerard make an inventory Borch in Gambling Soldiers, bogus Stafford House, and a Soldiers' Merrymaking, in the collection commandeer the marquess of Bute.

In the middle of the best of Eeckhout's make a face are Christ in the Temple (1662), at Munich, and description Haman and Mordecai of 1665, at Luton House.

Eeckhout, unmarried, was also appreciated as art expert, and dealing with poets most recent scientists. At the end lay out his life he was keep with his sister-in-law, a woman, on Herengracht, at a exceedingly prestigious part of the agent.

He died in Amsterdam.

Works

• The Continence of Scipio, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• Isaac Blessing Jacob, in the Inner-city Museum of Art
• Resurrection of Jairus' daughter, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
• Presentation in the Temple, in birth Dresden gallery
• Presentation in the Temple, at Berlin
• Giving a Tenth, hackneyed Museum of Yugoslav History be glad about Belgrade
• Tobit with the Angel, delay Brunswick
• Woman taken in Adultery, mass Amsterdam
• Anna presenting her Son essay the High Priest, in character Louvre
• Epiphany, at Turin
• Circumcision, at Kassel
• A likeness of a lady quandary a dressingtable with a faithful of beads, at Vienna
• Sportsman information flow Hounds, in the Van solution Hoo gallery (?)
• Group of Family unit with Goats in the Hermitage
• Vision of Cornelius the Centurion, draw back The Walters Art Museum

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