Gerard ter Borch
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Gerard ter Borch | |
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Born | December 1617 |
Died | 8 December 1681 (aged 64) Deventer, Dutch Republic |
Nationality | Dutch |
Known for | Painting |
Gerard ter Borch (Dutch:
Biography
Gerard ter Borch was born in December 1617 in Zwolle in the province of Overijssel in the Dutch Republic.[2]
He received an excellent education from his father
In 1635, he was in London, and subsequently he travelled in Germany, France, Spain and
At this time Ter Borch was invited to visit Madrid, where he received employment and the honour of knighthood from Philip IV, but, in consequence of an intrigue, it is said, he was obliged to return to the Netherlands. One of his great patrons was Amsterdam burgomaster and statesman Andries de Graeff.[4] He seems to have resided for a time in Haarlem; but he finally settled in Deventer, where he became a member of the town council, as which he appears in the portrait now in the gallery of the Hague. He died at Deventer in 1681.[2]
Works
Ter Borch is a significant painter of genre subjects. He is known for his rendering of texture in draperies, for example in The Letter and in The Gallant Conversation, engraved by Johann Georg Wille.[5]
Ter Borch's works are comparatively rare; about eighty have been catalogued. Six of these are at the Hermitage, six at the Berlin Museum, five at the Louvre, four at the Dresden Museum, three at the Getty Center,[6] and two at the Wallace Collection.[2] A pair of portraits were located at the
The artist's painting The Suitor's Visit, c. 1658, oil on canvas, 80 x 75 cm (31½ × 29 9/16 in.) in the Andrew W. Mellon Collection, was used on the cover of Marilyn Stokstad's second edition of Art History.
Selected works
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Man on Horseback (1634)
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Adrian Pauw's arrival in Münster (1646)
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A Maid Milking a Cow in a Barn (c. 1652–54)
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The Gallant Conversation (The Paternal Admonition) (c. 1654)
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The concert (1655)
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Woman writing a letter (c. 1655)
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The letter (c. 1655)
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Portrait of a Family (after 1656)
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An officer dictating a letter (c. 1657–58)
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A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier, circa 1658, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Suitor's Visit (c. 1658)
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Lady at her Toilette (1660)
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A Lady Reading a Letter (1662)
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Glass of Lemonade (c. 1664)
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The Letter (c. 1660–1665)
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Portrait of Jacob de Graeff, free lord of Purmerland and Ilpendam (between 1670 and 1681)
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Portrait ofCornelis HrR Ridder de Graeff(1673)
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Portrait of Pieter de Graeff, free Lord of Zuid-Polsbroek, Purmerland and Ilpendam (1674)
Claim for Nazi-looted art
In 2007, the heirs to the retail magnate Max Emden requested that the National Gallery of Victoria restitute the Gerard ter Borch painting Lady with a Fan which Emden had owned prior to the rise of the Nazis.[8]
Notes
- ^ a b c d "Vermeer was brilliant, but he was not without influences". The Economist. 12 October 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "Gerard ter Borch". National Gallery catalogue. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ Pieter C. Vis: Andries de Graeff (1611–1678) ’t Gezagh is heerelyk: doch vol bekommeringen
- ^ Philadelphia Museum of Art page.
- ^ "Gerard ter Borch (Getty Museum)". Getty.edu. 7 May 2009. Archived from the original on 2 July 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ Gopnik, Blake (28 December 2010). "Dutch Painter Gerard ter Borch: Putting people and things in perspective". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Claim on gallery's 'Nazi-loot' art". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
The painting belonged to Jewish retail magnate Max Emden, who fled Hamburg ahead of Nazi rule leaving much of his massive art collection behind. His grandson, Chile-based Juan Carlos Emden, said the ter Borch painting was one of about 100 stolen during the Holocaust. Mr Emden is planning to visit Melbourne to demand the painting's return. "There is no doubt that the painting was aryanised from the Max Emden collection in or about 1938," his request says, in response to demands from the NGV for Mr Emden to prove the ter Borch is rightfully his.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ter Borch, Gerard". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 637. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- Gerard Terburg (Ter Borch) et sa famille, by Emile Michel(Paris, 1887) on archive.org
- Der künstlerische Entwickelungsgang des C. Ter Borch, by Dr W Bode (Berlin, 1881)
- Maîtres d'autre fois, by Eugène Fromentin (4th ed., Paris, 1882)
- Gerard Ter Borch, by Eduard Plietzsch (1944) on archive.org
- Vermeer and The Delft School, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Gerard ter Borch (see index)
- The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Gerard ter Borch (cat. no. 1)
- Fifteenth- to eighteenth-century European paintings: France, Central Europe, the Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain, a collection catalog fully available online as a PDF, which contains material on Gerard ter Borch (cat. no. 33-34)
- Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Hermitage, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Gerard ter Borch (cat. no. 3-4)