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Joseph and his brothers Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Joseph and his brothers

Simeon in the Temple. Nunc dimittis Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Simeon in the Temple. Nunc dimittis

Rebekah and Eliezer at the Well Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Rebekah and Eliezer at the Well

Juno Jupiter and Io Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Juno Jupiter and Io

The Continence of Scipio Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

The Continence of Scipio

Vertumnus and Pomona Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Vertumnus and Pomona

The last supper Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

The last supper

Christ and the adulteress Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Christ and the adulteress

The Angel and Gideon Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

The Angel and Gideon

Men bathing Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Men bathing

Group Portrait Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Group Portrait

Ruth and Boaz Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Ruth and Boaz

A Family Portrait with Mother and Father in the guise of Jacob and Rachel Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

A Family Portrait with Mother and Father in the guise of Jacob and Rachel

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Joseph and his brothers

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Vertumnus and Pomona

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

The Prophet Eliseus and the Shunammite

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Scholar over his books

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Portrait of a family

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Juno Jupiter and Io Print by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Juno Jupiter and Io

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (19 August 1621 – 29 September [1][2] 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.

Biography


In this painting (dated 1664) an angel appears to the Roman centurion Cornelius.[3] The Walters Art Museum.

Gerbrand was born in Amsterdam, the son of a jeweller, a Mennonite who fled after 1585 from Antwerp to the north. In 1631 his mother died. His father's second wife was Cornelia Dedel, the daughter of a founder of the Delft chamber of the Dutch East India Company.

Arnold Houbraken records Van den Eeckhout was a pupil of Rembrandt. A fellow pupil to Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes and Govert Flinck, but regarded as inferior to them in skill and experience; he soon assumed Rembrandt's manner with such success that his pictures were confused with those of his master.[4]

Eeckhout does not merely copy the subjects; he also takes the shapes, the figures, the Jewish dress and the pictorial effects of his master. It is difficult to form an exact judgment of Eeckhout's qualities at the outset of his career. His earliest pieces are probably those in which he more faithfully reproduced Rembrandt's peculiarities. Exclusively his is a tinge of green in shadows marring the harmony of the work, a gaudiness of jarring tints, uniform surface and a touch more quick than subtle.[4]

Eeckhout matriculated early in the Gild of Amsterdam. As he grew older Eeckhout succeeded best in portraits, for example that of the historian Olfert Dapper (1669), in the Städel collection in Frankfurt. Eeckhout occasionally varied his style. He followed Gerard ter Borch in Gambling Soldiers, at Stafford House, and a Soldiers' Merrymaking, in the collection of the marquess of Bute. Amongst the best of Eeckhout's works are Christ in the Temple (1662), at Munich, and the Haman and Mordecai of 1665, at Luton House.[4]

Eeckhout, unmarried, was also appreciated as art connoisseur, and dealing with poets and scientists. At the end of his life he was living with his sister-in-law, a widow, on Herengracht, at a very prestigious part of the canal. He died in Amsterdam.


Works
Botanici at work

Resurrection of the Daughter of Jairus, in the Berlin museum
Presentation in the Temple, in the Dresden gallery
Presentation in the Temple, at Berlin
Giving a Tenth, at Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade
Tobit with the Angel, at Brunswick
Woman taken in Adultery, at Amsterdam
Anna presenting her Son to the High Priest, in the Louvre
Epiphany, at Turin
Circumcision, at Kassel
A likeness of a lady at a dressingtable with a string of beads, at Vienna
Sportsman with Hounds, in the Van der Hoo gallery (?)
Group of Children with Goats in the Hermitage
Vision of Cornelius the Centurion, at The Walters Art Museum

Some of his works can be found in the Metropolitan Museum, New York and Skokloster Castle, north of Stockholm.
References

City Archive Amsterdam
Liedtke, W. (2007) Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 185.
"Vision of Cornelius the Centurion". The Walters Art Museum.

Chisholm 1911.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den". Encyclopædia Britannica 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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