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Arnold Houbraken

Arnold Houbraken , 1660-1719, Dutch painter, etcher, and author of The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters (3 vol., 1718-21), containing important biographies. His son Jacobus Houbraken, 1698-1780, a well-known engraver, worked chiefly in Amsterdam, executing over 500 portraits and book illustrations including those for his father's volumes.

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Houbraken, Arnold (b Dordrecht, 28 Mar. 1660; d Amsterdam, 14 Oct. 1719). Dutch painter and writer on art. His paintings are now forgotten, but he is important for his biographical compilation De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (The Great Theatre of Netherlandish Men and Women Painters, 3 vols., 1718–21). This was intended as a sequel to van Mander's Schilder-boeck of 1604 and is the main source of information on many 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters. Arnold's son Jacobus (1698–1780) was a leading portrait engraver. His work includes engraved plates after his father's designs for the Groote schouburgh.

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Houbraken, Arnold (1660–1719). Dutch painter and writer on art. His paintings are now forgotten, but he is important for his large biographical work De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (The Great Theatre of Netherlandish Men and Women Painters, 3 vols., 1718–21). This was intended as a sequel to van Mander's Schilder-boeck of 1604 and is the most important sourcebook on 17th-century Dutch art. Arnold's son Jacobus (1698–1780) was a leading portrait engraver. His work includes engraved plates after his father's designs for the Groote schouburgh.

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	Rembrandt, Caravaggio Exhibited Together News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...principle of painting directly from life is not ... consistently adhered to," wrote Dutch critic and painter Arnold Houbraken in 1719. "This was a view just as firmly held by our master Rembrandt, who also made it practice to paint only...
	Re-imagining art and life: painting in the age of Rembrandt.(The Bader Collection) Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...not academies, clearly embraced innovation, as celebrated in the many biographies of these artists published by Arnold Houbraken. Rembrandt's pupil Carel Fabritius, a genius in his own right, conjured close colour harmonies in brighter colours...
	Fragile vitality ART Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...reality. It shows what the artist meant by his boldly unconventional declaration - recorded by his early biographer Arnold Houbraken - that 'a piece is finished if the master has achieved his intention in it'. If Rembrandt is Dutch portraiture...
	a thin time for rembrandt's women. Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/21/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Dutch poet Andries Pels, 12 years after Rembrandt's death, and disgusting, as did the painter's biographer, Arnold Houbraken, some 40 years later. And there, in the borderland between admiration and profound distaste, the nudes remained...
	The strangeness of Vermeer. (Johannes Vermeer, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) Magazine article from: Art in America; 5/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...his few works came onto the market. But it so happened that, for reasons that remain unclear, he was left out of Arnold Houbraken's Groote Schouburgh, the foundational 18th-century Dutch handbook on artists. So it was that for almost 150...
	a thin time for rembrandt's women Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 9/21/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Dutch poet Andries Pels, 12 years after Rembrandt's death, and disgusting, as did the painter's biographer, Arnold Houbraken, some 40 years later. And there, in the borderland between admiration and profound distaste, the nudes remained...
	Cezanne's painted remainder.(Short story) Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...other artists: his predecessors and near contemporaries. Vasari had many successors in this genre. For example, Arnold Houbraken's Great Theater of the Netherlandish Painters (1718-21) is in large part a painstaking compilation of anecdotes...
	Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum opens unique exhibit on Rembrandt and Caravaggio News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...principle of painting directly from life is not ... consistently adhered to," wrote Dutch critic and painter Arnold Houbraken in 1719. "This was a view just as firmly held by our master Rembrandt, who also made it practice to paint only...