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EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den

EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den Portrait of a Family fg oil painting on canvas
Portrait of a Family fg
Painting ID::  6553
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EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den Portrait of a Family fg oil painting on canvas



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  EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den
  Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1621-1674 Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was the son of the goldsmith Jan Pietersz. van den Eeckhout and 'a great friend' as well as a pupil of Rembrandt, according to Houbraken, who commented that van den Eeckhout painted in the style of his master throughout his career. This is certainly true of van den Eeckhout's (biblical) history paintings, but less so of either his portraits, which gradually displayed more Flemish elegance, or his genre pieces (from 1650), in which he followed various trends; he adapted his style to suit his subject with sensitive versatility. He was also a gifted colourist and an artist of great imagination, superior in both these respects to such better-known Rembrandt pupils as Ferdinand Bol and Nicolaes Maes. Moreover, he was extremely productive, and there is at least one dated painting for virtually every year between 1641 and 1674. In addition, he created a large body of drawings comprising histories, figures, landscapes and genre scenes executed in various media, including watercolour.
  Portrait of a Family fg
  1667 Oil on canvas, 85 x 100 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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