Adriaen Hanneman

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Adriaen Hanneman (c. 1603, The Hague - buried 11 July 1671, The Hague) was a seventeenth-century Dutch painter best-known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony Van Dyck.

William Hamilton, Second Duke Hamilton (1616-1651) by Adriaen Hanneman, in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Henry, Duke of Gloucester, by Adriaen Hanneman, from the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

1 Biography
2 Hanneman's Portraits
3 Paintings by Hanneman in Public Museums
4 Bibliography
5 External Sources

[edit] Biography

1603 or 1604 - born in the Hague. (1601 according to some sources.) 1619 - studies under Hague portrait artist Anthony van Ravestyn 1626-1638 - works in England. 1632 - Arrival of Anthony Van Dyck in London. Van Dyke's work has an important influence on the work of Hanneman. 1645 - Named deken, or head of the Guild of Saint Luke. 1656 - establishes a guild of painters, engravers and sculptors, which he heads. 1671 - Dies in the Hague.

[edit] Hanneman's Portraits

Hanneman is best known for court portraits of the British and Dutch nobility, usually painted in imitation of the style of Anthony Van Dyke. According to some sources, he may have worked in the studio of Van Dyke in London. Later, in the Hague, he painted several English Royalists who had gone into exile in the Netherlands after the English Civil War.

In about 1639, soon after returning from England, He painted a portrait of the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), a contemporary of Isaac Newton, who discovered the wave theory of light, Saturn's rings, and the pendulum clock.

In about 1648, he painted Charles, the Prince of Wales, later Charles II of England, when he was in the Hague staying with his sister. The original painting is lost, but about thirty copies were made, and are found in different museums, including the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

In about 1654, he painted the four-year old William III, Prince of Orange, wearing the sash of the Order of the Garter. (now in the Rijksmuseumin Amsterdam.)

In about 1664 he painted Maria I Stuart (1631-1660,) the wife of Prince William II. The painting was made several years after her death, at the request of her son, Willem III. Mary is painted wearing a South American cloak of colored feathers, and a headress of pearls and ostrich feathers. Such cloaks had been brought to the Netherlands from Brazil as early as 1644. (now in the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands).

[edit] Paintings by Hanneman in Public Museums

Portrait of a Woman, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Henry, Duke of Gloucester (c. 1653) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Prince William III (1654), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Posthumous Portrait of Mary I Stuart with a Servant, Mauritshuis Museum.

Portrait of Lady Lucy Percy, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.

William Hamilton, Second Duke of Hamilton, National Portrait Gallery, London.

Charles II as Prince of Wales, (Copies of lost original), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and National Portrait Gallery, London.

"Two Boys and a Bubble" The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach Florida

[edit] Bibliography

Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. "Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century - The Collections of the National Gallery of Art" Systematic Catalog. Washington DC, 1995, pgs. 91-92.