Allart van Everdingen

Allart van Everdingen , 1621-75, Dutch painter and etcher. Although he worked primarily in Haarlem and Amsterdam, the scenery of Sweden and Norway forms the subject of some of his finest pictures. In color, atmosphere, and composition his paintings have been compared to those of Ruisdael. Everdingen executed over 150 etchings, treated in a broad and vigorous manner. Outstanding among them were his etchings for Reynard the Fox. His brother Caesar Everdingen, 1617-87, was a portrait and historical painter in the Italian academic style.

Everdingen, Allart van (bapt. Alkmaar, 18 June 1621; bur. Amsterdam, 8 Nov. 1675). Dutch landscape and marine painter. He is said to have been a pupil of Savery in Utrecht and Molyn in Haarlem. In 1644–5 he visited Scandinavia, where he developed a taste for subjects inspired by the scenery there—above all mountain torrents—and helped to popularize such themes in the Netherlands. Ruisdael, in his pictures of majestic waterfalls, was one of the artists influenced by him. Allart was also a fine etcher and a prolific draughtsman. His elder brother Caesar (b Alkmaar, ?1616/17; bur. Alkmaar, 13 Oct. 1678), who painted portraits and historical pictures, was attracted by the south rather than the north. Although he never went to Italy, he captured the spirit of Italian art better than many of his countrymen who crossed the Alps: witness his beautiful Four Muses with Pegasus (c.1650), part of the decoration of the royal villa—the Huis ten Bosch—at The Hague (see Huygens).

Everdingen, Allart van (1621–75). Dutch landscape and marine painter. He was born in Alkmaar and is said to have been a pupil of Savery in Utrecht and Molyn in Haarlem. In 1644–5 he visited Scandinavia, where he developed a taste for subjects inspired by the scenery there—above all mountain torrents—and helped to popularize such themes in the Netherlands. Ruisdael, in his pictures of majestic waterfalls, was one of the artists influenced by him. Allart was also a fine etcher and a prolific draughtsman. His elder brother Caesar (1617–78), who painted portraits and historical pictures, was attracted by the south not the north. Although he never went to Italy, he captured the spirit of Italian art better than many of his countrymen who crossed the Alps: witness his beautiful Four Muses with Pegasus (c.1650), part of the decoration of the royal villa—the Huis ten Bosch—at The Hague.