Landscape & Genre Art painters
Aernout or Artus (c. 1603–9 November 1677), was a landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, specializing in small night scenes lit only by moonlight and fires, and snowy winter landscapes, both often looking down a canal or river. He was a contemporary of Albert Cuyp and Meindert Hobbema, and like the latter he lived and died in comparative obscurity.
Aert van der Neer — http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/SK-C-191
NOTE: On his images the horizon is lower and the viewers eye is almost at the same level with the subjects in the scene. He emphasizes the sky much more than some other artists, like Brueghel for example. I learnt about his work from this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZyr4cLgS5E) — How Dutch Painters Invented Atmosphere
Claude Lorrain
French painter
Born: 1600, Chamagne, France
Died: November 23, 1682, Rome, Italy
Periods: Baroque, Classicism, Rococo, Baroque painting, Renaissance
Description
Claude Lorrain was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting.Wikipedia
Albert Bierstadt
American-German painter
Description
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century. Wikipedia
Born: January 7, 1830, Solingen, Germany
Died: February 18, 1902, New York
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
Dutch painter
Description
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces. He was a member of the second generation of “Dutch Italianate landscape” painters.Wikipedia
Born: October 1, 1620, Haarlem, Netherlands
Died: February 18, 1683, Amsterdam
Hendrick Avercamp
Dutch painter
Description
Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks, and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Wikipedia
Born: January 25, 1585, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: May 15, 1634, Kampen, Netherlands
Brunswick Monogrammist
Painter
Description
The Brunswick Monogrammist was an anonymous Netherlandish painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century. He painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes, and has been called “the most significant precursor of Pieter Bruegel the Elder”. Wikipedia
Jacob van Ruisdael
Dutch painter
Description
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular. Wikipedia
Born: 1628, Haarlem, Netherlands
Died: March 10, 1682, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Periods: Baroque, Dutch Golden Age
William Hogarth
English painter
Description
William Hogarth FRSA was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. Wikipedia
Born: November 10, 1697, London, United Kingdom
Died: October 26, 1764, London, United Kingdom
Joseph Wright of Derby
English painter
Description
Joseph Wright ARA, styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as “the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution.” Wikipedia
Born: September 3, 1734, Derby, United Kingdom
Died: August 29, 1797, Derby, United Kingdom
Periods: Romanticism, Rococo, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Renaissance, Realism
David Teniers the Younger
Painter
Description
David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. Wikipedia
Born: December 15, 1610, Antwerp, Belgium
Died: April 25, 1690, Brussels, Belgium
Period: Baroque
Art forms: Painting, Tapestry
NOTE: What is amazing for me is the genuine way of using animals (especially dogs) as strong supporting subjects in the paintings.
Animals that are moving make the scene look more uncontrolled, less set up. By painting the playing dogs next to dancing people (seen in two of Teniers paintings) makes the activity very natural since in real life is normal animals to have indirect interaction with various human movements. In the painting bellow is the happy dog playing around the dancing folks.
Jan Steen
Dutch painter
Description
Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century. His works are known for their psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour. Wikipedia
Born: 1626, Leiden, Netherlands
Died: February 3, 1679, Leiden, Netherlands
Periods: Baroque, Dutch Golden Age
Jan Feliks Piwarski
Painter
Description
Jan Feliks Piwarski — was a Polish painter, curator, writer and graphic artist; one of the earliest lithographers in Poland. Wikipedia
Born: November 20, 1794, Pulawy, Poland
Died: December 17, 1859, Warsaw, Poland
Gerard ter Borch
Dutch painter
Description
Gerard ter Borch, also known as Gerard Terburg, was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer. Wikipedia
Born: December 1617, Zwolle, Netherlands
Died: December 8, 1681, Deventer, Netherlands
Periods: Baroque, Dutch Golden Age
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Artist
Description
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes; he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings. Wikipedia
Born: 1525, Netherlands
Died: September 9, 1569, Brussels, Belgium
On view: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, National Gallery of Art, MORE
Periods: Northern Renaissance, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Renaissance
Nationality: Dutch
Known for: Painting, Printmaking
Children: Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jan Brueghel the Elder
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Painter
Description
Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens, the two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the first three decades of the 17th century. Wikipedia
Born: 1568, Brussels, Belgium
Died: January 13, 1625, Antwerp, Belgium
Ivan Aivazovsky
Painter
Description
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. Wikipedia
