Discover painter Hendrick ter Brugghen

Hendrick ter Brugghen

male / North Netherlandish

painter

Name variations

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: Brugghen, Hendrick Jansz. ter
Terbrugghen, Hendrick

Qualifications: painter

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Utrecht (city) 1588
not born in Deventer, but probably in Utrecht or The Hague. Utrecht would seem more likely, since he is mentioned as coming from Utrecht in the register of the marriage banns; however, his family lived in The Hague from April 1589 until after 1602 (Bok/Kobayashi 1985, p. 7-9). Houbraken states that he was born in Deventer in 1588, based on a published notification by Richard ter Brugghen; however, Houbraken also states that Ter Brugghen's father fled from Overijssel in 1581 and settled in Utrecht. Sandrart and De Bie previously published that Ter Brugghen was born in 1587 in Utrecht.

Deceased: Utrecht (city) 1629-11-01
probably died of the plague. Houbraken mentions that he died suddenly in his 42nd year, on all saints’ day (Houbraken 1718, p. 134).

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Jan Egbertsz ter Brugghen (1561-1626) and Feijsgen Dircx; married to Jacomyna Verbeeck (died 1634) in Utrecht, 15 October 1616. Their son Richard ter Brugghen (1619-1710) became a laywer. Richard ter Brugghen donated the series of the four evangelists of 1621 to the city of Deventer in 1707 (De Bie 1709, p. 274, Houbraken 1718, p. 135; RKDimages 229763). Houbraken writes that he learned this from a printed extract of the Resolutions of the city of Deventer of 5 August 1707. Hofstede de Groot could not find a printed Resolution, but published an extract of the Liber Resolutionum civitatis Daventriae 1704-1708 (XXIII) of 4 August 1707, which he received from the city archivist (Hofstede de Groot 1893A, p. 439). Richard ter Brugghen also published a letter by Adriaen van der Werff of April 5th 1707, in which he states that Hendrick ter Brugghen was a great painter (Ter Brugghen/Van der Werff 1707, also included in Kramm 1862, appendix, p. 147). See also M.J. Bok in Blankert/Slatkes 1986, p. 73, note 57.

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181 hits in RKDimages as artist
58 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
284 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
18 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1616 - 1629
earliest dated painting 'The penitent St. Peter' in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, is from 1616

Active in

Den Haag (stad) 1602
until at least 1602 in The Hague (Bok/Kobayashi 1985)
Rome 1608 - 1614
His Italian sojourn started in the summer of 1607 and arrived in 1607 or 1608 (Bok/Kobayashi 1985).
Napels
possibly visited Naples; A long-standing tradition has it that Hendrick ter Brugghen painted 'a large piece placed above the high altar in the Great Church' (De Bie 1709, p. 273; Houbraken 1718, p. 134). However, no trace of such a painting is found (Fokker 1931).
Milaan 1614
Hendrick ter Brugghen and his traveling companion, Thyman van Galen, were in Milan in the summer of 1614 (Bok/Kobayashi 1985). Travelled back to Utrecht with Michiel van den Sande and François van Knibbergen.
Gotthardpas (Zwitserland) 1614
in the late summer of 1614
Utrecht (stad) 1614-10 - 1619
arrived in Utrecht around 1 October 1614; member of the guild since 1616; when he married in 1616 his home address was given as the Korte Lauwerstraat; married to Jacoba Verbeeck, a daughter from the first marriage of his brother’s wife (Bok/Kobayashi 1985)
1619 - 1621
possibly again in Italy in this period (not documented)
Utrecht (stad) 1621 - 1629

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active in

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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
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.: Hattich, Sebastiaen van
Hogenberg, Frans
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.: Galen, Nicolaes van
Meester van de Kasselse Muzikanten
Meester van de Stockholmse Muzikanten
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Henrixz, Simon
Couwenbergh, Christiaen van
Serodine, Giovanni

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.: allegory, figure, genre, history (genre), mythology, Christian religious scene

Medium/technique: oil paint

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Caravaggisti

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Utrecht)
since 1616

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 58 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

De Bie 1661-1662 , p. 132 (as: Verbrugghen)
Sandrart/Peltzer 1675/1925 (as: Henrich Verbrug)
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 134-136, vol. 3 (1721), p. 46 (as: Hendrik Terbruggen.)
Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 6 (1862), p. 1613-1614; sup. p. 147-148
Hofstede de Groot 1893 (Quellenstudien) , p. 273, 437-439
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 703
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 5 (1911), p. 113
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 590
Fokker 1931 (Werke Niederländischer Meister) , p. 60-61
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 76, 143-146, 173, 280, 390, 416, 504, 529
Witt Checklist 1978
Nicolson 1979 , vol. 1, p. 189-196
Haak 1984 , p. 209-210
Sutton 1984 , p. 61
Blankert/Slatkes 1986 , p. 65-170 (text: M.J. Bok)
Saur 1992- , vol. 14 (1996), p. 504
Spicer/Orr/Bok 1997 , p. 379-380
Weller et al. 1998 , p. 93-110
Horn 2000 , p. 113, 225, 251, 332, 519; 3-34
Helmus et al. 2007 , passim
Slatkes/Franits 2007 (information given by De Bie must be taken carefully, since part of it is proven to be false (p. 1))
Van der Sman et al. 2016 , p. 135-147
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

Richard ter Brugghen (quoting a letter of Adriaen van der Werff), Brief aan Richard Terbrugghen, 5 April 1707, ter verdediging van de nagedachtenis van zijn vader, Henrick Terbrugghen (copy Royal Library, The Hague)
C. de Bie, Den spiegel vande verdrayde werelt: te sien in den bedriegelijcken handel, sotte, en ongeregelde manieren van het al te broos menschen leven, Antwerp 1709, p. 273-277 (reports that Ter Brugghen sold paintings to the kings of France and Spain)
R. Longhi, 'Ter Brugghen e la parte nostra’, Vita artistica 2 (1927), p. 105-116
A. von Schneider, 'Entlehnungen Hendrick Ter-Brugghens aus dem Werk Caravaggios', Oud-Holland 44 (1927), p. 262-269
F. Baumgart, 'Beiträg zu Hendrick Terbrugghen', Oud-Holland 46 (1929), p. 222-233
H. Pauwels, 'Nieuwe toeschrijvingen bij het oeuvre van Hendrik ter Brugghen', Gentse Bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis 13 (1952), p. 153-167
B. Nicolson, 'Second thoughts about Terbrugghen", The Burlington Magazine 102 (1960), p. 466ff
M.E. Houtzager, 'Opmerkingen over het werk van Hendrick Terbrugghen', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 6 (1955), p. 143-150
W. Stechow, 'Terbrugghen in America', The Art News October 1965, p. 47-51
P.J.J. van Thiel, 'De aanbidding der koningen en ander vroeg werk van Hendrick ter Brugghen', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 19 (1971), p. 91-116
B. Nicolson, 'Terbrugghen since 1960', in: Album Amicorum J.G. van Gelder, Den Haag 1973, p. 237-241
M.J. Bok en Y. Kobayashi, 'New data on Hendrick ter Brugghen', Hoogsteder-Naumann Mercury 1985, no. 1, p. 7-34 (online)
Chr. Schuckman, 'Did Hendrick ter Brugghen revisit Italy? Notes from an unknown manuscript by Cornelis de Bie', Hoogsteder-Naumann Mercury 1986, no. 4, p. 7-22
P. van Kooij, 'Ter Brugghen, Dürer and Lucas van Leyden', Mercury (1987), no. 5, p. 11-19
L.J. Slatkes, 'A new drawing by Hendrick ter Brugghen', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 38 (1987), p. 324-330
G.J.M. Weber, 'Ter Brugghen, Elsheimer, Poel and Rubens', Mercury (1988), no. 7, p. 23-28
P. van Kooij, 'Ter Brughhen Borrows from Bonasone', Mercury (1989), no. 9, p. 7-9
R. Schillemans, 'Over Hendrick ter Brugghen's "Kruisigingen" en de aanspraak van Adriaen Ploos op een adellijke afkomst', De zeventiende eeuw 9 (1993), no. 2, p. 137-151
G. Seelig, 'Ter Brugghens Lazarus-Gemälde: eine Bassano-Adaption', Oud Holland 108 (1994), p. 14-16
P. Curie, J.-Ph. Maisonnave, 'Un nouveau tableau de Hendrick Ter Brugghen et son atelier dans un église de Bordeaux', Revue de l'Art, 117/3 (1997), p. 71-73
M. Neumeister, Das Nachtstück mit Kunstlicht in der niederländischen Malerei und Graphik des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Petersberg 2003: 'Der Einfluß von Gerard van Honthorst auf andere Utrechter Maler: II.3.b) Hendrick ter Brugghen', p. 199-208
Th. Teplitzky, ''Dier Geschichte Jaakobs. Biblische Erzählungen im Wort und Bild. Gedanken zu Thomas Mann und Hendrick ter Brugghen', Köllner Museums-Bulletin 4 (2004), p. 27-39
P. Huys Lanssen, review of Slatkes/Franitz 2007, Simiolus 32 (2006), p. 314-318
H. Nickel, 'The Sun, the Moon, and an Eclipse: observations on The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen', The Metropolitan Museum Journal 42 (2007), p. 121-124
M.-J. Bok, 'Was Hendrick ter Brugghen a Melancholic?', Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 1 (2009), no. 2 (www.jhna.org)
X. van Eck, review of Seaman 2012, The Burlington Magazine 155 (2013), p. 101-102
X. van Eck, review of: V. von Rosen, Verhandlungen in Utrecht. Ter Brugghen und die religiose Bildsprache in den Niederlanden, The Burlington Magazine 158 (2016), p. 130-131
G.J. Weber, 'Ter Brugghen’s lost Martyrdom of St Bartholomew — what a copy can tell', Simiolus 38 (2015-2016), p. 250-259
W.E. Franits, ‘Hendrick ter Brugghen’s Paintings of the Crucifixion in New York and Turin and the Problem of His Early Chronology’, Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 9:1 (Winter 2017) DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2017.9.1.3

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