Bartholomeus Breenbergh

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Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1599-1659), by Jacob Adriaensz Backer, 1644
Born(1598-11-03)November 3, 1598
DiedOctober 3, 1657(1657-10-03) (aged 58)
NationalityDutch
StyleLandscapes
MovementDutch Golden Age

Bartholomeus Breenbergh (before 13 November 1598 – after 3 October 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Italian and Italianate landscapes, in Rome (1619-1630) and Amsterdam (1630-1657).

Biography

Little is known of his early life. In his three-volume Schouburg, Arnold Houbraken mentioned him in his first volume with an entreaty to readers to write to him with more news of Breenbergh's biography.[1] He had been told that Breenberg was born in Utrecht and had been a master of Cornelis van Poelenburgh, which he knew to be impossible from the facts that he already had, namely "the birth of Poelenburg in 1586 and the death of Breenberg in 1660."[1] Houbraken never received the information he requested, though he mentioned Breenbergh again in his second volume in a list of 59 competent painters who were contemporaries of Abraham Bloemaert and Paulus Potter.[2]

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (

Jacob Symonsz Pynas.[3]

Bartholomeus Breenberg, Saints Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (Sacrifice at Lystra), 1637, Princeton University Art Museum

Breenbergh is first registered as a painter on an archival record in 1619 in Amsterdam, though he possibly was established there earlier.

In the same year he left for Rome.

Nicolaes Moeyaert.[3] Breenbergh in his turn influenced the French landscape-painter Claude Lorrain (who arrived in the city about 1620). In about 1620 Breenbergh became one of the founders of the Roman society of Dutch and Flemish painters, the Bentvueghels, among whom he was nicknamed "het fret" (the ferret).[3]

In 1630 Breenbergh returned to Amsterdam. In 1633 he married, and received a yearly wage of 60 pounds from the court of king

Nicolaes Moeyaert
, but he placed their Biblical and mythological scenes in Italian landscapes.

His only registered pupil is

Francois van Knibbergen, and Catharina van Knibbergen.[3]

References

  1. ^
    Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ (in Dutch) complete list of 61 contemporary painters in Paulus Potter Biography in the second volume of the Schouburg
  3. ^
    RKD
  4. ^ Francesco da Castello in the RKD
  5. ^ p. 82, Artists in biographies by Giovanni Baglione

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