Gerrit Dou, considered the founder of the Dutch school of fijnschilderij , or fine painting, was born in Leiden on April 7, 1613, the son of Marytje Jansdr van Rosenburg and the glassmaker and engraver Douwe Jansz. According to Orlers, Dou received his first instruction, in the art of glass engraving, from his father.
Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Christian Josi 1767, published 1821 Chalk manner
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Artwork Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Brouwer, Lying Dog, 1777, chalk manner
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Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Brouwer, Christian Josi · published 1821 · chalk manner
Gabriel Metsu was born in Leiden sometime between November 27 and mid-December 1629, about eight months after the death of his father, the Flemish painter Jacques Metsue. In 1644, when fifteen-year-old Gabriel Metsu joined a semiformal group of local artists, he entered the membership rolls as a “painter.� Six days after the establishment of Leiden’s Saint Luke’s Guild in 1648, Metsu paid his membership dues as an independent master.
Kornlein, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Christian Josi 1768, published 1821 Chalk manner
Gerrit Dou, considered the founder of the Dutch school of fijnschilderij , or fine painting, was born in Leiden on April 7, 1613, the son of Marytje Jansdr van Rosenburg and the glassmaker and engraver Douwe Jansz. According to Orlers, Dou received his first instruction, in the art of glass engraving, from his father.
Girl at the Keyboard Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner
Gabriel Metsu was born in Leiden sometime between November 27 and mid-December 1629, about eight months after the death of his father, the Flemish painter Jacques Metsue. In 1644, when fifteen-year-old Gabriel Metsu joined a semiformal group of local artists, he entered the membership rolls as a “painter.� Six days after the establishment of Leiden’s Saint Luke’s Guild in 1648, Metsu paid his membership dues as an independent master.
works from Metsu’s Leiden period tend to be executed in a fairly broad and fluid manner
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1987.37.1 Artwork Gilles-Antoine Demarteau, Academie (639), c. 1785, chalk manner
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Minotaure aveugle guidé par Marie-Thérèse au pigeon dans une nuit étoilée), 1934, dark-manner
Although Nicolas Poussin’s work exerted an enormous influence on the development of French seventeenth-century painting, the artist perfected his style in Rome, incorporating the lessons of Renaissance and contemporary Italian painters into his own idiom. Poussin’s Baptism of Christ is one of a series of canvases illustrating the Seven Sacraments executed from 1638-1642 for his friend and patron Cassiano dal Pozzo.
[3] Lady Victoria Manners, „Notes on the Pictures at Belvoir Castle,“ Connoisseur
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Ploos van Amstel, Bernhard Schreuder, Christian Josi · 1773, published 1821 · chalk manner
