All Gerard van Honthorst Oil Paintings

(November 4, 1592 - April 27, 1656), also known as Gerrit van Honthorst and Gherardo della Notte, was a Dutch painter of Utrecht. He was brought up at the school of Abraham Bloemaert, who exchanged the style of the Franckens for that of the pseudo-Italians at the beginning of the 16th century. Margareta Maria de Roodere and Her Parents by Gerrit van Honthorst (1652) Oil on canvas, 140 x 170 cm. Centraal Museum, UtrechtInfected thus early with a mania which came to be very general in the Netherlands, Honthorst went to Italy in 1616, where he copied the naturalism and eccentricities of Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Home again about 1620, after acquiring a considerable practice in Rome, he set up a school at Utrecht which flourished exceedingly. Together with his colleague Hendrick ter Brugghen, he represented the so-called Dutch Caravaggisti. In 1623 he was president of his gild at Utrecht, where he had married his cousin. He soon became so fashionable that Sir Dudley Carleton, then English envoy at The Hague, recommended his works to the earl of Arundel and Lord Dorchester. In 1626 he received a visit from Rubens, whom he painted as the honest man sought for and found by Diogenes.
 

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Gerard van Honthorst Woman Playing the Guitar oil on canvas


Woman Playing the Guitar
Woman Playing the Guitar
Painting ID::  96073
  circa 1624(1624) Medium oil on canvas cyf
  circa 1624(1624) Medium oil on canvas cyf

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Gerard van Honthorst Samson and Delilah oil on canvas


Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah
Painting ID::  96139
  circa 1615(1615) Medium oil on canvas cyf
  circa 1615(1615) Medium oil on canvas cyf

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Gerard van Honthorst The Mocking of Christ oil on canvas


The Mocking of Christ
The Mocking of Christ
Painting ID::  96140
  circa 1617(1617) Medium oil on canvas cyf
  circa 1617(1617) Medium oil on canvas cyf

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Gerard van Honthorst Le Concert oil on canvas


Le Concert
Le Concert
Painting ID::  97815
  circa 1623(1623) Medium oil on canvas cyf
  circa 1623(1623) Medium oil on canvas cyf

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     Gerard van Honthorst
     (November 4, 1592 - April 27, 1656), also known as Gerrit van Honthorst and Gherardo della Notte, was a Dutch painter of Utrecht. He was brought up at the school of Abraham Bloemaert, who exchanged the style of the Franckens for that of the pseudo-Italians at the beginning of the 16th century. Margareta Maria de Roodere and Her Parents by Gerrit van Honthorst (1652) Oil on canvas, 140 x 170 cm. Centraal Museum, UtrechtInfected thus early with a mania which came to be very general in the Netherlands, Honthorst went to Italy in 1616, where he copied the naturalism and eccentricities of Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Home again about 1620, after acquiring a considerable practice in Rome, he set up a school at Utrecht which flourished exceedingly. Together with his colleague Hendrick ter Brugghen, he represented the so-called Dutch Caravaggisti. In 1623 he was president of his gild at Utrecht, where he had married his cousin. He soon became so fashionable that Sir Dudley Carleton, then English envoy at The Hague, recommended his works to the earl of Arundel and Lord Dorchester. In 1626 he received a visit from Rubens, whom he painted as the honest man sought for and found by Diogenes.

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