Artists by Time Period: Dutch Golden Age

Ambrosius Bosschaert
Ambrosius Bosschaert
Artists

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (Antwerp, January 18, 1573–The Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. He started his career in Antwerp, but spent most of it in...

Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Cuyp
Artists

Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz....

Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp
Artists

Hendrick Avercamp (bapt. January 27, 1585, Amsterdam - buried May 15, 1634, Kampen (Overijssel)) was a Dutch painter. Avercamp studied in Amsterdam with the Danish-born portrait painter...

Jan van Goyen
Jan van Goyen
Artists

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter. Jan van Goyen was the son of a shoemaker and started as an apprentice in Leiden. Like many...

Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer
Artists, Authors

Johannes or Jan Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in...

Frans Hals
Frans Hals
Artists, Authors

Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for portraiture. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting...

Paulus Potter
Paulus Potter
Artists

Paulus Potter (baptised on November 20, 1625 in Enkhuizen – buried on January 17, 1654 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, specialized in animals in landscapes, usually with a low point of...

Willem Drost
Willem Drost
Artists

Willem Drost (baptized 19 April 1633 - buried 25 February 1659) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits. He is a mysterious figure, closely...

Jan Steen
Jan Steen
Artists

Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch genre painter of the 17th century . Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour...

Govert Flinck
Govert Flinck
Artists

Govert Teuniszoon Flinck was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Born at Cleves, he was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer,...

Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius
Artists

Carel Fabritius was a Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils. Fabritius was born in the ten-year old Beemster polder, as the...

Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch
Artists

Pieter de Hooch was a genre painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a contemporary of Dutch Master Jan Vermeer,...

Salomon van Ruisdael
Salomon van Ruisdael
Artists

Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden - buried Nov 3, 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.

Dirck van Baburen
Dirck van Baburen
Artists

Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen was a Dutch painter associated with the Utrecht caravaggisti. Dirck van Baburen was probably born in Wijk bij Duurstede, but his family moved to...

Gerard Dou
Gerard Dou
Artists

Gerard Dou, also known as Gerrit and Douw or Dow , was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly-polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised...

Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade
Artists

Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch genre painter. He was the eldest son of Jan Hendricx Ostade, a weaver from the town of Ostade near Eindhoven....

Nicolaes Maes
Nicolaes Maes
Artists

Nicolaes Maes, also known as Nicolaes Maas (January 1634, Dordrecht - buried November 24, 1693, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Baroque painter of genre and portraits. Maes was the son of Gerrit...

Meindert Hobbema
Meindert Hobbema
Artists

Meindert Hobbema (bapt. Oct 31, 1638, Amsterdam - Dec 7, 1709, Amsterdam), was perhaps the greatest landscape painter of the Dutch school after Ruisdael. The facts of his life are somewhat...

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
Artists

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1 October 1620 - 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but...

Jan Baptist Weenix
Jan Baptist Weenix
Artists

Jan Baptist Weenix (Amsterdam, 1621- Vleuten 1660?), a painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Despite his relatively brief career, he was a very productive and versatile painter. His favourite...

Jan Weenix
Jan Weenix
Artists

Jan Weenix (164?, Amsterdam - buried Sep 19, 1719, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch painter. He was trained by his father, Jan Baptist Weenix, together with his cousin Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Like...

Ludolf Backhuysen
Ludolf Backhuysen
Artists

Ludolf Bakhuizen (or Backhuysen) (Dec 28, 1630 - Nov 17, 1708) was a German-born Dutch Golden Age painter who was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after the two Willem van de...

Aernout van der Neer
Aernout van der Neer
Artists

Aert van der Neer, or Aernout or Artus (c. 1603, Amsterdam – November 9, 1677, Amsterdam), was a landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, specializing in small night scenes lit only by...

Abraham Bloemaert
Abraham Bloemaert
Artists

Abraham Bloemaert (1566, Gorinchem - January 27, 1651, Utrecht), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving. He was one of the "Haarlem Mannerists" from about 1585, but in...

Gerard van Honthorst
Gerard van Honthorst
Artists

Gerard van Honthorst (November 4, 1592 - April 27, 1656), also known as Gerrit van Honthorst and in Italy as Gherardo delle Notti for his nighttime candlelit subjects, was a Dutch Golden Age...

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