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Gerrit Van Honthorst Biography In Details
Of great interest still, though rather sharp in outline and hard in modelling, are Honthorst's portraits of the Duke of Buckingham and Family (Hampton Court), the King and Queen of Bohemia (Hanover and Combe Abbey), Marie de Medici (Amsterdam town-hall), 1628, the Stadtholders and their Wives (Amsterdam and Hague), Charles Louis and Rupert, Charles I's nephews (Louvre, St Petersburg, Combe Abbey and Willin), and Lord Craven, (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Honthorst's early form may be judged by a Lute-player (1614) at the Louvre, the Martyrdom of St John in S. M. della Scala at Rome, or the Liberation of Peter in the Berlin Museum; his latest style is that of the House in the Wood (1648), where he appears to disadvantage by the side of Jordaens and others.
Honthorst was succeeded by his brother William, born at Utrecht in 1604, who died, it is said, in 1666. William lived chiefly in his native place, temporarily at Berlin. But he has left little behind except a portrait at Amsterdam, and likenesses in the Berlin
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Gerard van Honthorst
1590 - 1656
Gerard (or Gerrit) van Honthorst was a Netherlandish painter, born in Utrecht. He studied with his father and with Abraham Bloemaert.
Around 1610 he travelled to Italy, probably together with Bloemaert. In 1620 he was back in Utrecht, where he married Sophia Coopmans. He was one of the founders of the Utrecht painter's guild. In 1628 he spent a few months in London, commissioned by Charles I to decorate the Whitehall Banqueting House.
During his stay in Italy Van Honthorst came under the influence of Caravaggio. He copied his technique and spread it in the Netherlands. His school is called the Utrecht caravaggists. In Italy Van Honthorst was known as Gherardo delle Notti, "Gerard of the nights".
He was court painter at the court of the Dutch stadtholder William II. Between 1637 and 1651 he therefore worked both in Utrecht and in The Hague.
Gerard van Honthorst died on April 27, 1656.
The portrait is print made by Paulus Pontius after a painting by Anthony van Dyck.
work by Gerard van Honthorst
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Biography
Dutch painter (byname Gherardo della Notte), a leading member of the Utrecht school influenced by the Italian painter Caravaggio. He was born in Utrecht as the son of a textile painter. His younger brother Willem also became a painter. Van Honthorst was apprenticed to Abraham Bloemaert, the most celebrated master in Utrecht. He went to Italy around 1610-1615, when Caravaggio's influence there was at its height. In Italy, Van Honthorst acquired the nickname Gherardo delle Notti, because his figures are often portrayed in the darkness of night. He soon made a name for himself and received commissions from distinguished patrons such as Vincenzo Giustiniani and Cardinal Scipione Borghese. Notable works of his Italian sojourn include The Beheading of St John the Baptist (S. Maria delle Scala, Rome), Christ Before the High Priest (c. 1617, National Gallery, London), and the Supper Party (1620, Uffizi, Florence), all nocturnal scenes.
In 1620, Van Honthorst returned to Utrecht and married Sophia Coopmans in the same year. In 1622, he joined the Guild of St Luke in Utrech
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