Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn
| Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn | |
|---|---|
 'Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn in group portrait by Frans Hals in 1627. | |
| Birth name | Aert Jansz Druyvesteyn |
| Born |
1577 Haarlem |
| Died |
1627 (aged 49–50) Haarlem |
| Nationality | Netherlands |
| Field | Painting |
| Movement | Baroque |
Aernout or Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn (1577 – 5 August 1627) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
According to Van Mander in 1604, he was a promising young landscape painter who came from a good family in Haarlem, and thus painted as a hobby, rather than professionally.[1] According to Houbraken, who echoes Van Mander's comment that he became a good landscape painter, he became an elder in the Dutch Reformed church before eventually becoming mayor of Haarlem. Houbraken reports that he died on August 5, 1617 aged 50.[2]
This date makes it very confusing for art historians, because catalogs from the Frans Hals museum have claimed for decades that this is the same person sitting at the head of the table in Frans Hals' civic guard (schutterij) group portrait Banquet of the officers of the St. Jorisdoelen, painted ten years after that in 1627.
According to the RKD he painted Italianate landscapes and died on August 5, 1627, aged 60.[3] This would place the occasion of painting the group portrait as the changing of the guards after the death of its most distinguished member.
References
- ↑ (Dutch) Aert Jansz Druyvesteyn in Karel van Mander's Schilderboeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ↑ (Dutch) Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ↑ Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn in the RKD
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