Gerrit van Honthorst

Gerrit van Honthorst or Gerald van Honthorst (also named Gherardo della Notte), born the November 4th 1592 with Utrecht where he died the April 27th 1656 was a painter Dutch 17th century, painter of history and kind and portraitist.

Biography

Born in a family from artists, Gerrit van Honthorst was the pupil of Abraham Bloemaert. In the Years 1610, it remained several years in Italy where it supplemented its formation, with Rome, by studying particularly the work of the Caravage. It also went to London, where it carried out for the king Charles Ier of the remarkable tables, gave lessons to the princesses of the royal family. It became, with its return in its fatherland, the representative more for one group of painters who were known under the name of “ Caravagistes of Utrecht ”, Dutch disciples of the Italian painter Caravage, like Hendrick for the third time Brugghen.

In 1622, Gerrit van Honthorst was allowed in the guild of the painters of Utrecht.

He excelled painting night scenes and reproducing the effects of the artificial light, which made it call “Gherardo delle Notti” ( Gerard of the night ).

He has a manner vigorous and seizing: its tables strike imagination and charm the sight, but the color in is sometimes a little black.

In the Années 1630, Gerrit van Honthorst was made known as portraitist, which enabled him to settle with $the Hague in 1637.

It was named painter of Guillaume IIer, prince d' Orange in 1641.

In 1649, it was invited to take share, at the side of other artists, the decoration of the Orange Hall in the Palate of the Stadhouder of Huis ten Bosch.

In 1652, it returned to Utrecht, where it died four years later.

Works

  • the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam has five tables of Gerrit van Honthorst:

    • the merry violonist (1623)
    • Frederic-Henri of Orange-Nassau, prince d' Orange and Stadhouder, with its Amalia wife and their three young girls (1647)
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  • the Musée of Louvre has six of them:

    • the Concert with the balcony (1624)
    • the player of guitar (1624)
    • the puller of teeth (v. 1627)
    • Portrait of the palatine prince Maurice of Bavaria (1621-1652), fourth wire of Frederic V of Palatinat, king de Bohème (1640)
    • Portrait of the palatine prince Edouard of Bavaria (1624-1665), sixth wire of Frederic V of Palatinat, king de Bohème (v. 1640)
    • Portrait of Frederic-Henri of Orange-Nassau, prince d' Orange and Stadhouder of the United Provinces (Netherlands) (v. 1650)

One can moreover admire:

It also left very-beautiful portraits.

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