Adriaen van ostade biography of christopher

  • Baptized on December 10, 1610, in Haarlem, Adriaen van Ostade was the third of the eight children of Jan Hendricx van Eyndhoven and Janneke Hendriksdr.
  • Saint Christopher was a Christian martyr who died in the third or early fourth century.
  • Van Ostade is said to have been a pupil of Frans Hals but it is difficult to see any of Hals' influence in his paintings.

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    About Jan van de Venne

    Flemish painter
    Mechelen (?) circa 1592 – before 1651 Brussels (?)

    Ancient sources sometimes spell his name as ‘van der Vinnen’.

    Also known as the ‘Pseudo-Van de Venne’, because he used to be wrongly thought of as the brother of the better known Dutch painter Adriaen van de Venne. Jacques Foucart from the Louvre rectified this error in an article published in 1978.
    Very few of his paintings are signed, but based on the signed or documented works it was very easy to attribute the unsigned ones, seeing the very specific style, subjects, use of light and brilliancy of Jan van de Venne.

    Painter of genre scenes and also of religious subjects.

    In 1616 he is recorded as a Master in the Painter’s Guild of Saint Luc in Brussels.
    Van de Venne had important patrons, amongst them the Cardinal Infant Ferdinand and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.

    Van de Venne specialised in caricatured, so-called ‘low-life’ subjects, such as card-players, tooth-pullers and musicians, and in expressive religious scenes.

    Because he regularly painted gipsies he is also known as ‘le Maître des Tziganes’ in France, where many museums hold his paintings (Aix-en Provence, Auxerre, Besançon, Cham

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    Adriaen forefront Ostade (1610-1685), Customers Conversing in a Tavern (detail), 1671
    Promised donation of Susan and Levi Weatherbie, dust support remark the Center for Netherlandish Art.

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    Adriaen van Ostade

    Literature

    Collection catalogues
    Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 298-299, plate 257
    Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 512

    Literature
    Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 101




    Other works by Adriaen van Ostade


    A Peasant courting an Elderly Woman
    1653


    Peasant Drinking


    The Interior of a Peasant's Cottage
    1668


    Woman leaning out a half door
    1660s?


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