Dirck van der Bergen

Dirck van Bergen (1645, Haarlem – c. 1700, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Adriaen van de Velde, who copied his style very well.^[1] He was a popular man who spent his money as easily as he earned it, and spent some time in England, but died in Haarlem.^[1]

According to the RKD his work later influenced Wilhelm von Kobell.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b (Dutch) Dirk van Bergen Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
^ Dirck van Bergen in the RKD

Dirk van Bergen on Artnet

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Name	Bergen, Dirck van
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Date of birth	1649
Place of birth	Haarlem
Date of death	c. 1700
Place of death	Haarlem