Discover painter, print artist, draftsperson Bartholomeus Breenbergh

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: Breenberch, Bartholomaeus
Breenberg, Bartholomaeus
Breenborch, Bartholomaeus
Promontorio, Tolomeo
Fret
Het Fret
Het Fret was his bent-name.

Monogram: BB

BB in ligature

Qualifications: painter, print artist, draftsperson, court painter

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Deventer (place) 1598-11/1598-11-13
baptized on 13 November 1598

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1657-10/1657-10-05
buried 5 October 1657 in the Old Church

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: married to Rebecca Schellingwou (c. 1610-1667) in Amsterdam on 27 August 1633

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Groenewegen, Pieter Anthonisz. van

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293 hits in RKDimages as artist
13 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2855 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
16 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1619 - 1657
in 1619 already mentioned as a painter; his earliest dated work is of 1622 (Stockholm, Hallwylska Museum)

Active in

Hoorn (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1607
moved with his family in 1607, after the death of his father, probably to Hoorn; possibly he was educated there
Amsterdam (stad) 1619
possibly earlier but certainly in Amsterdam in October 1619, mentioned as a witness and as a painter
Rome 1619 - 1623
from 1619 in Rome, Via dei Pontifici, comincando del Corso, a mano dextra, in the same house as a painter Francesco de Castello and his family (Hoogewerff 1942) (Hoogewerff 1952: since 1620 until c. 1629; co-founder of the Schilderbent in 1623 (Hoogewerff 1952, p. 133;
Torre di Chia 1624
was probably in Torre di Chia in 1624 (Schatborn et al. 2001, p. 67)
Bomarzo 1625
visited also the Gardens of Bomarzo
Rome 1626
Vodret 2011, esp. p. 20-21
Bracciano 1627
visited the Lago di Bracciano, probably in 1627
Tivoli 1627
Rome 1628 - 1629
Londen (Engeland) 1632 - 1633
1632 or possibly early 1633 (Wood 2000-2001, p. 117). March 15, 1633 he received an annual payment of 60 pounds from the English Royal court (Wood 2000-2001, p. 124).
Amsterdam (stad) 1633 - 1657
married in Amsterdam in 1633 in Amsterdam; lived and worked here until his death; also mentioned as a merchant in 1652 en 1655.

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bloemaert, Abraham
Lastman, Pieter
Pynas, Jacob
Pynas, Jan
according to Hoogewerff 1952 pupil of Abraham Bloemaert, according to Saur 1996 trained in Amsterdam by Pieter Lastman or the brothers Jan of Jacob Symonsz. Pynas
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bisschop, Jan de

probably (Saur 1996)
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Boissieu, Jean Jacques de
Ferg, Franz de Paula
Hoet, Gerard (I)
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Poelenburch, Cornelis van
Moeyaert, Claes
Bril, Paul
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Barata, Laurens
Compagno, Scipione
Groenewegen, Pieter Anthonisz. van
Hooch, Chaerles de
Knibbergen, François van
Knibbergen, Catherina van
Linsen, Jan

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: history (genre), landscape (genre), portrait, Christian religious scene, italianate, architecture (genre), interior view

Medium/technique: oil paint

Member of

Bentvueghels

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 13 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 369-370; vol. 2 (1719), p. 131 (as: Bartol. Breenberg)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 2 (1855), p. 1274-1275 (as: Barthel Breenbergh)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 565-566 (as: Breenbergh, Bartholomeus)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 47 (as: Breenbergh, Bartholomeus)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 390, 401, 405 (as: B. Breenbergh)
Hoogewerff 1942 , p. 21 (fol. 30), 88 (fol. 65) (as: resp: Bartolomeo pittore, Bartolomeo Promontorio)
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 3 [1950], p. 205-216 (as: Bartholomeus Breenbergh)
Hoogewerff 1952 , passim
Van Gelder/Van Hasselt/Blankert 1966 , p. 20-26
The Illustrated Bartsch (1978-) , vol. 5 (1979), p. 173-185
Haak 1984 , p. 144 en 302
Sutton/Blankert 1987 , p. 283-285
Briganti et al. 1991 , p. 144
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998) (Bartolomeus Breenbergh (baptised 13 Nov 1598 - buried 5 October 1657) alias Het Fret. Son of Jan (an apothecary). Born at Deventer, from where the family left in c. 1607 after Jan's death. It is not really known where Bartolomeus was taught, but most probably this was at Amsterdam. By the year 1620 he had gone to Rome, as inferred from his own statement about a good seven years of acquaintance there with Paul Bril. The year of his return to Amsterdam is not documented, but it may well have been 1629 when a long and continuous series of dated oils begins (see below). In 1633 he got married at Amsterdam to the daughter of a cloth merchant and dated paintings suggest he found less time for painting as the years advanced; in 1653 he even gave his profession as a trader. In his last ten years he lived on ever more fashionable canals in the city of Amsterdam, where his death is recorded. A fine monograph with oeuvre catalogue, after an earlier one on the drawings, - was produced by M. Roethlisberger (Berlin 1981); the Breenbergh oeuvre, with a hardcore of some 120 works in oils, is now much better defined than Poelenburch's. For these two major painters amongst the founders of the Bent at Rome, both highly indebted to P.Bril, it will always remain difficult to separate the non-marked oils they did in their Italian years; even if Roethlisberger's studies really helped. As to the way in which their art developed once back home there is increasing clarity. Breenbergh got back to Amsterdam where by that time the landscape art of the prae-Rembrandtists (Pieter Lastman and notably such youngsters as Jacob Pynas and Claes Moeyaert) had started to make its mark; quite naturally he did hook on and over the years historical figuration gains more place in his Italian landscapes. But even if his presumed earliest work from 1622 reminds one of Jacob Pynas, the Pynas lifedata do not allow us to believe that he was a Pynas pupil; Breenbergh's teacher most probably was one of those many forgotten Amsterdam landscape painters of the 1610s. The survey below will limit itself once more to enumeration of a hardcore of marked works in accessible collections. Italian landscapes: Stockholm-Hallwyl 1622; London, V&A/Ham House 1629; Kassel and St.Petersburg 1630; Malibu CA and St.Petersburg 1631; Malibu CA and Warsaw 1632; Bremen 1633; Strasbourg and Vaduz 163.; Bayer. Staatsgemäldesammlungen/Munich and New York 1634; Brest, London V&A/Ham House and Paris 1635; Abbeville, London, Orléans and Rome/Villa d'Este 1636; Hannover, Karlsruhe, Lyons and Malibu CA 1637; Bayer. Staatsgemslgn 1638; Amsterdam 1639; Berlin and St. Petersburg 1640; Antwerp, Copenhagen, Moscow-Pushkin and St. Petersburg 1645; Stockholm 1646; Frankfurt and Grenoble 1647; Madrid-Thyssen 1650; Birmingham-Barber 1655; St.Petersburg 1656; Barnard Castle; Coburg; Johannesburg; Kassel (2x); Stockholm; Würzburg (ed. M. de Kinkelder, August 2007))
Saur 1992- , vol. 14 (1996), p. 65 (as: Breenbergh, Bartholomeus)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 178-180 (as: Bartholomaus Breenberch)
Schatborn/Verberne 2001 , p. 66-73
Harwood et al. 2002 , p. 85
Cappelletti et al. 2011 , passim
Vodret 2011 , p. 20, 79, 131, 243, no. 271
Sluijter 2015 , p. 127-148
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

K. Gerstenberg, 'Johann Georg Trautmann und Breenbergh', Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft 7 (1914), p. 374 and Tafel 81, fig. 1-2
G.J. Hoogewerff, 'De stichting der Nederlandsche Schildersbent te Rome', Feestbundel dr. Abraham Bredius, Amsterdam 1915, vol. 1, p. 109-125, esp. 115
W. Stechow, 'Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Landschafts- und Historienmaler', Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 51 (1930), p. 133-140
M. Chiarini, 'Filippo Napoletano, Poelenburgh, Breenbergh e la nascita del paesaggio realistico in Italia', Paragone 23 (1972), no. 269, p. 18-34
H.J. Nalis, 'Bartholomeus Breenbergh; Aantekeningen over zijn leven en verwanten', Vereeniging tot beoefening van Overijsselsch regt en geschiedenis, Verslagen en mededelingen, 87e stuk, 1972, p. 62-81; 88e stuk, 1973, p. 51-59 (RKD, Press Documentation Collection)
M.G. Roethlisberger, 'Breenbergh and Barata', Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bulletin 23 (1977), p. 8-21
M.R. Waddingham, 'Bartholomeus Breenbergh: The Paintings', The Burlington Magazine 123 (1981), p. 426-427 (review of Roethlisberger 1981)
N. Sluijter-Seijffert, review of Roethlisberger 1981, Oud Holland 96 (1982), p. 69-72
R.E.O. Ekkart, 'Bartholomeus Breenbergh en Dirck Metius', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 31 (1983), p. 248-254
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, J.H. Giskes,'Noord-Nederlandse Pre-Rembrandtisten en Zuid-Nederlandse muziekinstrumentenmakers. De schilders Pynas en de luit- en citermakers Burlon en Coop', Jaarboek Amstelodamum 76 (1984), p. 13-37, esp. p. 35, note 37
M. Roethlisberger, 'New Works by Bartholomeus Breenbergh', Oud Holland 99 (1985), p. 57-66
J. Wood, 'Orazio Gentileschi and some Netherlandish Artists in London; The Patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, Charles I and Henrietta Maria', Simiolus 28 (2000-2001), p. 103-128, esp. p. 117, 124
S. Alsteens, 'An Earlier Version of the Metropolitan’s View of Tivoli by Bartholomeus Breenbergh', Master Drawings 53 (2015), no. 4, p. 443-450

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Creation date: 1993-11-18; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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Paul Brinkmann 16 April 2021: Deventer, 16 april 2021
Vanuit de geboortestad van Breenbegrh een verbetering op de nu gepresenteerde tekst.
Het gegeven dat de toren van Chia op Sardinë ligt is natuurlijk onjuist.
Breenbergh was is dienst van Paolo Giordano Orsini II die landerijen had bij Bracciano maar ook bij Bomarzo. Tussen Bomarzo en Orte ligt Chia.
Ik zal u graag de kaart van noord Italië willen tonen om de plaats te duiden. Is er een mogelijkheid
Paul Brinkmann

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