Adriaen van de Velde was the son and brother of the great marine artists Willem van de Velde the Elder and the latter’s son and […]
A recent acquisition, this work is signed and dated ‘A. Bloemaert/1617’’. To us this is a great masterpiece: not only is it signed and dated […]
Only 7 flower still lifes by Dirck de Bray are known to us, all dated. Dirck came from a family of artists; his father Salomon […]
Abraham van den Tempel was the son of Lambert Jacobsz. a painter in Leeuwarden who initially instructed him together with other pupils, the somewhat older […]
The reason we like Peasants playing cards by a white horse in a rocky gully by Philips Wouwerman is that it is a ‘Dutch’ scene […]
The technique of pen paintings consisted of drawing in ink with a pen on a panel or canvas (for large works) covered with a painted […]
The present impeccably preserved pair of panel paintings is one of only two pairs preserved by Witmont. Their uniqueness is further enforced by the fact […]
This naughty little boy represents the Sense of Taste. Molenaer, a Haarlem painter who married Judith Leyster in 1636, painted a number of series of […]
This charming little panel, not signed or dated, depicts a very popular subject in Dutch 17th century painting. Possibly the painting is not signed because […]
Adriaen van Ostade’s A laughing man is a relatively early work, dating to the 1640’s. According to Van Houbraken, Van Ostade and Adriaen Brouwer knew […]
Her eyes are wonderful! One of our first acquisitions, this charming Shepherdess by Paulus Moreelse, dated 1617, is the earliest depiction of a pastoral half-length […]
When Jacob Backer arrived in Amsterdam in 1632, he frequently attended the Uylenburgh workshop, which was then led by Rembrandt, two years his senior. In […]
Although education and literacy were very developed in 17th century Holland – the first university was established in Leiden in 1575 by William of Orange […]
Bust of an old man with turban was executed around 1627-28 and is really a study of light, a subject that would fascinate Rembrandt all […]
Egbert van der Poel today is mainly known for his depictions of the devastating explosion of the Delft gunpowder store on 12 October 1654 in […]
The interlaced monogram ‘DVL’ placed at the lower centre of this Arcadian landscape identifies the artist as the Hague painter and burgomaster Dirck van der […]
A wooded landscape with a roadside cottage was probably painted at the beginning of Hobbema´s fruitful period 1663-68. This is supported by the painting’s still-close […]
This signed Still life with books and a globe of 1628 dates from the Leiden period of Jan Davidsz de Heem, generally regarded as one […]
This recently rediscovered self-portrait by Adriaen Hanneman – painted not on the usual canvas but rather on panel – is the last dated work by […]
Boy eating porridge was acquired as an anonymous work of the Haarlem school. In subject and execution it recalls the work of the famous Haarlem […]
One of our earliest acquisitions in 1995 this self-portrait (which then was unknown in the literature) proved very popular and was asked for many exhibitions. […]
At the upper left we find the signature of the artist, Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp. He was a pupil of his stepbrother Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp and […]
From the 1650s, night-time village fires were a popular theme with painters in Rotterdam. The naturalistic rendering of the light effects produced by fire and […]
This panel painting was unknown until it entered the Kremer Collection, and is among Van Anthonissen’s smallest works. Many of Van Anthonissen’s marines depict existing […]
Jan van der Heyden is arguably the greatest cityscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age. The large church in the hearth of the town in […]
Pieter de Molijn, though less known with the public at large, was an influential and innovative landscape artist. His 1626 Dune landscape with Trees and […]
Throughout his career Govaert Flinck painted pastoral themes; his earliest dated one is 1636. Pastoral scenes were very popular and were first developed in Utrecht (see […]
George: “Works by Willem van Mieris never really appealed to me and I did not consider him for the KC until I saw this work: […]
Initially Houckgeest painted mainly fantasy architecture. This changed however around 1650 when he began to paint existing buildings. Like his colleague, Emanuel de Witte he […]
Jan van Bijlert made several paintings of the Madonna and Child after returning from Italy and our work is undoubtedly among the most successful. Notice […]
For almost 200 years this work by Aelbert Cuyp was part of the famous Czernin collection in Austria. In the early 1990s doubts emerged about […]
This painting most likely has been inspired by Rembrandt´s famous painting The painter in his studio now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. For […]
Made available to art lovers and connoisseurs for the first time in more than 100 years, this landscape caused something of a sensation at the […]
This painting has always been described in the art-historical literature as an anonymous copy after a lost Rembrandt painting of circa 1631. New scientific study […]
In the 17th century playing a flute would be understood by contemporaries to have an erotic meaning – no doubt the reason why this flute […]
The painted oeuvre of Lieve Verschuier, which was only reconstructed a few years ago, consists of about 75 images. Ships in a gathering storm clearly […]
Netscher painted A lady washing her hands in 1657, when he was still working in Ter Borch’s studio. Hand washing was a popular motif in […]
This life-size depiction of Christ at the column is one of the earliest works by Jan Lievens, described in 1641 by the Leiden chronicler Jan […]
The date 1639 makes this one of Cuyp’s earliest works; the artist was 19 years old! From maps of the period we know that there […]
In the 1620s Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer lived for a while in Haarlem and Amsterdam and most likely studied with Frans Hals. There he met […]
