Caspar Netscher
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Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher (1639 – January 15, 1684) was a Dutch portrait and
and introduced an international style to the Northern Netherlands.Life
According to Arnold Houbraken's 17th-century biographical study of Dutch painters he was born in Heidelberg or Prague.[1] His father Johann Netscher was a sculptor from Stuttgart.[1][2] The elder Netscher married Elizabet Vetter, the daughter of a mayor in Heidelberg, against her father's wishes.[1] He died in Poland [3] when Caspar was two years of age. It has been suggested that Caspar may have been the son of a Rotterdam painter.[4] When Heidelberg was attacked during the civil war, Caspar's mother fled with four children to an estate outside the city.[1] When the castle was laid under siege, the people there suffered from hunger and Caspar's two older brothers died.[1] Caspar's mother fled in the night, carrying the young Caspar in her arms and with her young daughter on foot, staying at almshouses for widows and orphans.[1][5] They travelled in this way to Arnhem, where they finally found safe quarter.[1] In Arnhem Caspar was adopted by a rich physician named A. Tullekens.[1] At first he was destined for the profession of his patron, but owing to his great aptitude for painting he was placed under a local artist named Hendrick Coster, and through the acquaintance of Wynant Everwyn in 1654, who had family connections to Tullekens, he became a student of Ter Borch in Deventer.[1][5] He was Ter Borch's most gifted pupil, probably worked as an assistant as well and he appears several times as a model on Ter Borch's paintings.[citation needed]
When he came of age, he first worked for the Dutch "keelbeulen" (Houbraken called art dealers "cutthroats") until he had enough money to make a
It is likely that Netscher knew the painters
It was in these that Netscher's genius was fully displayed. The choice of these subjects, and the habit of introducing female figures, dressed in glossy satins, were imitated from Ter Borch; they possess easy yet delicate pencilling, brilliant and correct colouring, and pleasing light and shade; but frequently their refinement passes into weakness. The painter was gaining both fame and wealth when he began to suffer from gout and took to his bed, where he continued to paint lying down and died prematurely in 1684, in The Hague.
Gallery
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Presentation of The Medallion
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Singing lesson
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Mary II of England
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François-Anne David after Caspar Netscher, Caspar Netscher with His Family, 1772, engraving
Notes
- ^ Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Liedtke, W. (2007) Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 517.
- ^ "Humrichfineart.com". www.humrichfineart.com.
- ^ Wayne E. Franits, p. 107. Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution, Yale University Press, 2004
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911, p. 421.
- ^ "Caspar Netscher - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Museum for Art and History". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ^ Liedtke, W. (2007) Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 518.
- ^ Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, Haagse Schilders in de Gouden Eeuw, 1998, p. 316
- ^ "Discover print artist, painter, draftsman Caspar Netscher". rkd.nl.
References
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Netscher, Gaspar". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 421. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Caspar Netscher in the RKD
External links
Media related to Caspar Netscher at Wikimedia Commons
- 46 artworks by or after Caspar Netscher at the Art UK site
- Netscher Art Gallery
- Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Caspar Netscher