Honthorst, Gerrit van
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Honthorst, Gerrit van (1592–1656). Dutch painter of biblical, mythological, and
genre scenes, and of portraits. He was a pupil of
Bloemaert in his native Utrecht, but his style was formed by a long stay in Italy, where he probably spent most of the second decade of the century. On his return to Utrecht in 1620 he became, along with
Baburen and
Terbrugghen, one of the leading followers of
Caravaggio in the Netherlands. The candlelight effects he favoured in his early pictures (
Christ before the High Priest,
c.1617, NG, London) earned him the nickname ‘Gherardo delle Notti’ (Gerard of the Night Scenes). In the late 1620s, however, he abandoned his Caravaggesque style for a lighter manner in which he achieved international success (rare for a Dutch artist) as a court portraitist. His distinguished patrons included Christian IV of Denmark and Charles I of England; he spent most of 1628 in England, where he painted several portraits, including one of Charles (NPG, London). From 1637 to 1652 he was court painter in The Hague.
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The picture of forbearance: Gerrit van Honthorst depicts Christ holding his peace before Caiaphas.(LENT 2006)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/31/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...OF LENT: "Christ before the High Priest," by Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1617 So often when Jesus talks to his disciples...as self-esteem has nothing on which to cling. Gerrit van Honthorst's great picture (great in two senses, as it...
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Of course it's 1-0 to the Dutch: the match is a fix VISUAL ART Rembrandt-Caravaggio Van Gogh Museum AMSTERDAM
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 3/5/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...been shifted over the road to the Van Gogh Museum, itself a curious...Caravaggists, Dutch Romans such as Gerrit van Honthorst whose work Rembrandt, a contemporary...Caravaggio's lie not just Lastman and Honthorst, but the Protestant Reformation...
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Show illuminates Dutch painters' rich use of light.(Arts)(Art)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/11/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Abraham Bloemaert , Ter Brugghen and Gerrit van Honthorst. Consider how the "Saint Sebastian...Bloemaert, Ter Brugghen and Van Honthorst, use is a warm one, unlike what...grapes set out for the viewer. Von Honthorst uses much the same lighting device...
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Going Dutch: George and Ilone Kremer have formed a major collection of Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings in just 15 years. As they explain to Louise Nicholson, they take great pleasure in sharing their remarkable achievement with the public.(COLLECTORS & COLLECTING)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...gallery, he goes straight to St Peter Penitent by Gerrit van Honthorst (Fig. 2). Like his wife, he is informed...because it is full of masterly development. Gerrit van Honthorst is by now a celebrated man in Italy, he gets commissions...
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RELATIVE VALUES CHANGING FACE OF THE PALACE ART COLLECTION
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/23/2002; 376 words
; ...three eldest children'; Jacob van Doort, `Charles I when Prince...George III (sketch)' 1958 Gerrit van Honthorst, `The Four Eldest Children...Godfrey Kneller, `Mehmet' 1984 Gerrit van Honthorst, `Sophia, Princess Palatine...
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The Maastricht treats
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...sales in London Above:a lost Gerrit vanHonthorst ofTheMockingofChrist...picture at Maastricht is a lost Gerrit van Honthorst of The Mocking of Christ - candlelit...had the catalogue compiler of Honthorst's work rushing at high speed...
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Going Dutch
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/28/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and jurist Hugo Grotius, by Jan van Ravesteyn. This is chronologically...stilted family group by Cornelis van der Voort, in which the father proffers...informal portrait of Charles I by Gerrit van Honthorst depicts the monarch looking oddly...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/27/1994; 593 words
; ...Duke of Burgundy, 1404; Ferdinand Magellan, navigator, killed by Philippine natives 1521; Gerrit van Honthorst, painter, 1656; Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, landscape painter, 1656; James Bruce, explorer, 1794; Sir William Jones, orientalist...
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Hendrick Goltzius and mannerism.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 2/10/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...1988, though it will be universally acknowledged that Gerrit van Honthorst's Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane-or a self-portrait by Samuel van Hoogstraten-hardly carries the rhetorical charge of...
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Arts Guide
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...include works by Terbrugghen, Strozzi, Caravaggio and Gerrit van Honthorst.www.khm.at-britainLondon Estorick Collection...index.html-netherlandsRotterdamMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen, tel: (10) 441-9400, closed Mondays...
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Gerrit van Honthorst
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gerrit van Honthorst , 1590-1656, Dutch portrait, genre, and allegorical painter...painting that introduced Caravaggesque dramatic realism into Dutch art. Honthorst's Winter King of Bohemia is in the Metropolitan Museum. Bibliography...
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Honthorst, Gerrit van
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Honthorst, Gerrit van (1592–1656). Dutch painter of biblical, mythological, and genre scenes , and of portraits. He was a pupil of...
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Art in the Northern Netherlands, 1585–1700
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...his biographer, Karel van Mander (1548 –...and Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562 –...introduced to the group by Van Mander. Cornelis's monumental...Caravaggisti. These include Gerrit van Honthorst (1590 – 1656...
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Huygens, Constantijn
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...x2013;52; the team of Dutch and Flemish artists involved, overseen by Jacob van Campen , included Salomon de Bray , Caesar van Everdingen , Gerrit van Honthorst , Jacob Jordaens , and Jan Lievens . Some of the individual contributions are impressive...
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Jan Vermeer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...later works. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary is reminiscent of compositions by Hendrick Terbrugghen and Gerrit van Honthorst, who disseminated the Caravaggesque style in Holland. Diana and Her Companions, Vermeer's only mythological...
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