Eglon van der Neer

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In this Dutch name, the surname is Van der Neer, not Neer.
Galleria degli Uffizi
Elegant couple in an interior, 1678

Eglon van der Neer (1635/36[1] – 3 May 1703) was a Dutch painter of historical scenes, portraits and elegant, fashionable people, and later of landscapes.

Life

Van der Neer was born in Amsterdam and likely first taught by his father,

Nieuwe Kerk between 1640 and 1650. He took lessons from Jacob van Loo
, who was then one of the foremost figure painters in Amsterdam.

Around 1654, Van der Neer, who probably had just finished his education with van Loo, traveled to

Marie Du Chastel
in the following year. They had nine children.

Painter for royalty

Kandaules' wife discovers Gyges
, 1675-1680.

In Brussels, van der Neer established a good relationship with the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, the Marquess of Castanaga. In 1687, van der Neer was appointed court painter to the Spanish King Charles II of Spain. In 1689, when Carlos' first wife died, van der Neer portrayed one of the new wedding candidates, Maria Anna of Neuburg.

In 1695, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, bought a painting by van der Neer, when traveling through the Netherlands. This painting must have pleased him, because shortly thereafter the Elector Palatine contacted van der Neer directly and gave him commissions. In that same year Brussels was bombarded by French troops and van der Neer started to look for another place to begin a new life. The Elector Palatine had been looking for a replacement ever since his last court painter Johannes Spilberg had died in 1690. Van der Neer's second wife had died in 1692, and he met Spilberg's daughter, herself a qualified painter, Adriana Spilberg. They married in 1697 and in 1698 Johann Wilhelm offered Van der Neer the position at his court as head painter. Van der Neer thus settled in Düsseldorf and remained there for these last years of his life.

Legacy

During his Amsterdam and Rotterdam period, van der Neer primarily painted genre scenes and portraits that betray a stunning variety of styles.

Gabriel Metsu and Frans van Mieris. Van der Neer painted only a handful of mythological and Biblical scenes.[4] The early examples are very similar to his genre scenes and show figures in contemporary interiors. Later, in Brussels and Düsseldorf, van der Neer set his historical scenes outdoors, with a landscape setting. In these paintings he followed the example of Adam Elsheimer. His pure landscapes, without figures from literary sources, show other stylistic influences, such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, and Jacques d'Arthois
. Most of van der Neer's paintings are small and his style is highly finished. However, he could work on a large scale and would then adjust his manner of painting.

Notes

  1. ^ Liedtke, W. (2007) Dutch painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 512.
  2. ^ "Explore Discover court painter, painter, draftsman Eglon van der Neer". rkd.nl.
  3. ^ "Web Gallery of Art, searchable fine arts image database". www.wga.hu.
  4. Judith in the National Gallery by Eglon van der Neer "NG2535". Archived from the original
    on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-08-10.

References

  • Crowe, Joseph Archer; Konody, Paul George (1911). "Neer, van der s.v. Eglon van der Neer" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). p. 341.
  • Peter Hecht, De Hollandse fijnschilders: Van Gerard Dou tot Adriaen van der Werff, exhibition catalogue Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
  • Peter Hecht, ‘Een Van der Neer voor het Rijksmuseum’, Kunstschrift 35 (1991), no. 3, pp. 5,6.
  • Eddy Schavemaker, ‘Copy and paste in the Work of Eglon van der Neer: Some Thoughts on Eclecticism’, in E. Mai (ed.), Holland nach Rembrandt. Zur niederländischen Kunst zwischen 1670 und 1750, Cologne 2006, pp. 247–262.
  • Eddy Schavemaker, Eglon Hendrik van der Neer (1635/36-1703). Zijn leven en werk, PhD thesis Utrecht University 2009
  • Eddy Schavemaker, Eglon van der Neer. His Life and Work, Doornspijk 2010

External links

Media related to Eglon van der Neer at Wikimedia Commons

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