Govert flinck

Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1615-1660 was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Born at Cleves, he was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer, but having secretly acquired a passion for drawing, was sent to Leeuwarden, where he boarded in the house of Lambert Jacobszon, a Mennonite, better known as an itinerant preacher than as a painter. Here Flinck was joined by Jacob Backer, and the companionship of a youth determined like himself to be an artist only confirmed his passion for painting. Amongst the neighbours of Jacobszon at Leeuwarden were the sons and relations of Rombertus van Uylenburgh, whose daughter Saske married Rembrandt in 1634. Other members of the same family lived at Amsterdam, cultivating the arts either professionally or as amateurs. The pupils of Lambert probably gained some knowledge of Rembrandt by intercourse with the Ulenburgs. Certainly Joachim von Sandrart, who visited Holland in 1637, found Flinck acknowledged as one of Rembrandt's best pupils, and living habitually in the house of the dealer Hendrik Uylenburg at Amsterdam. For many years Flinck laboured on the lines of Rembrandt, following that master's style in all the works which he executed between 1636 and 1648. With aspirations as a history painter, however, he looked to the swelling forms and grand action of Peter Paul Rubens, which led to many commissions for official and diplomatic painting. Flinck's relations with Cleves became in time very important. He was introduced to the court of the Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg, who married in 1646 Louisa of Orange. He obtained the patronage of John Maurice of Nassau, who was made stadtholder of Cleves in 1649. In 1652 a citizen of Amsterdam, Flinck married in 1656 an heiress, daughter of Ver Hoeven, a director of the Dutch East India Company.


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Govert flinck Landscape oil


Landscape
Painting ID::  84584
Landscape
Date 1637(1637) Medium Oil on wood Dimensions Height: 49 cm (19.3 in). Width: 75 cm (29.5 in). cjr
   
   
     

Govert flinck Landscape oil


Landscape
Painting ID::  88447
Landscape
1637(1637) Medium Oil on wood cyf
1637(1637) _ Medium_Oil_on_wood _ cyf
   
   
     

Govert flinck Portrait of Rembrandt oil


Portrait of Rembrandt
Painting ID::  89767
Portrait of Rembrandt
between 1633(1633) and 1634(1634) Medium oil on panel cyf
   
   
     

Govert flinck Schutters van de compagnie van kapitein Joan Huydecoper en luitenant Frans Oetgens van Waveren bij het sluiten van de Vrede van Munster oil


Schutters van de compagnie van kapitein Joan Huydecoper en luitenant Frans Oetgens van Waveren bij het sluiten van de Vrede van Munster
Painting ID::  92482
Schutters van de compagnie van kapitein Joan Huydecoper en luitenant Frans Oetgens van Waveren bij het sluiten van de Vrede van Munster
1648 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 265 X 513 cm (104.3 X 202 in) cjr
   
   
     

Govert flinck Portrait of a man surrounded by books oil


Portrait of a man surrounded by books
Painting ID::  98264
Portrait of a man surrounded by books
1654(1654) Medium oil on panel Transferred to canvas Dimensions 134 x 110 cm cyf
   
   
     

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     Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1615-1660 was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Born at Cleves, he was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer, but having secretly acquired a passion for drawing, was sent to Leeuwarden, where he boarded in the house of Lambert Jacobszon, a Mennonite, better known as an itinerant preacher than as a painter. Here Flinck was joined by Jacob Backer, and the companionship of a youth determined like himself to be an artist only confirmed his passion for painting. Amongst the neighbours of Jacobszon at Leeuwarden were the sons and relations of Rombertus van Uylenburgh, whose daughter Saske married Rembrandt in 1634. Other members of the same family lived at Amsterdam, cultivating the arts either professionally or as amateurs. The pupils of Lambert probably gained some knowledge of Rembrandt by intercourse with the Ulenburgs. Certainly Joachim von Sandrart, who visited Holland in 1637, found Flinck acknowledged as one of Rembrandt's best pupils, and living habitually in the house of the dealer Hendrik Uylenburg at Amsterdam. For many years Flinck laboured on the lines of Rembrandt, following that master's style in all the works which he executed between 1636 and 1648. With aspirations as a history painter, however, he looked to the swelling forms and grand action of Peter Paul Rubens, which led to many commissions for official and diplomatic painting. Flinck's relations with Cleves became in time very important. He was introduced to the court of the Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg, who married in 1646 Louisa of Orange. He obtained the patronage of John Maurice of Nassau, who was made stadtholder of Cleves in 1649. In 1652 a citizen of Amsterdam, Flinck married in 1656 an heiress, daughter of Ver Hoeven, a director of the Dutch East India Company.

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