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Arent de Gelder

male / North Netherlandish

painter, draftsperson

Name variations

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: Gelder, Aert de
Arent signed mostly 'A. de Gelder'; in the literature he is mainly called 'Arent de Gelder'.

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson
member of the civil guard

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Dordrecht (city) 1645-10-26
born 26 October (Houbraken 1721); christened on 11 November 1645

Deceased: Dordrecht (city) 1727-08-27
on 29 August 1727 buried in the Grote Kerk of Dordrecht (Obreen 1884-1887)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Jan Aertsz de Gelder (born c. 1609), who was treasurer of the West Indien Company, and Maria Lotterich/Lottering. He never married and lived in the same house as his brother.

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).

Moelaert, Jacob

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188 hits in RKDimages as artist
16 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
887 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
72 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Dordrecht (stad) 1660
possibly between 1659 and 1661 pupil of Van Hoogstraten
Amsterdam (stad) 1661 - 1663
between ca. 1661 and ca. 1663 pupil of Rembrandt; Houbraken erroneoulsy states that this happened in 1646 (allthough he give the correct birth date)
Dordrecht (stad) 1663 - 1727
ca. 1663, after his studies with Rembrandt, he returned to Dordrecht

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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.: Hoogstraten, Samuel van
Rembrandt

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.: genre, history (genre), portrait, landscape (genre), architecture (genre), peasant genre

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 16 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p. 206-209, 269 (as: Arent de Gelder)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 7 (1862), p. 80 (as: Arent or Aart de Gelder)
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 6 (1884-1887), p. 3 (G.H. Veth, 'Arent de Gelder')
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 573-574, vol. 3 (1911), p. 91
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 13 (1920), p. 359-360 (K. Lilienfeld) (as: Gelder, Arent de)
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 7 [1952], p. 95
Witt Checklist 1978
Sumowski 1979-1992 , vol. 5 (1981), p. 2335-2444
Sumowski 1983-1994 , vol. 2 (1983), p. 1154-1277
Saur 1992- , vol. 51 (2006), p. 176-177 (as: Gelder, Arent de (G. Sluiter))
Bevers et al. 2009 , passim
De Witt/Van Sloten/Van der Veen 2015 , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

G.H. Veth, 'Aanteekeningen omtrent eenige Dordrechtsche schilders. XVI: Arent de Gelder, Oud Holland, 6 (1888), p. 184-186
K. Lilienfeld, 'Neues über Leben und Werke A. de Gelders', Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt 54, N.F. 30 (1918-1919), p. 131-135
D. van Fossen, 'Aert de Gelder: an attribution for the "Christ blessing the childeren" in London', Art Quarterly 33 (1970), p. 134-146
G. Sluiter, review of Moltke 1994, Oud Holland 111 (1997), p. 69-74
G. Sluiter, 'De fascinatie van Arent de Gelder voor Rembrandts etsen', Dordrechts Museum Bulletin, 22/3 (1998), p. 35-45
F. de Graaf, 'Gebaren en houdingen in de schilderijen van Arent de Gelder', Dordrechts Museum Bulletin 22 (1998), no. 4, p. 51-60
S. Nijstad, 'Gelukkige grootouders geportretteerd door Arent de Gelder', Galerij 3/7 (November 2000), p. 30-33
W. Liedtke, 'Rembrandt's "Workshop" revisited', Oud Holland 117 (2004), p. 48-73 (esp. p. 68)
Chr. Tümpel, 'Arent de Gelder's Religious Iconography', in: V. Manuth en A. Rüger (eds.), Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honour of Alfred Bader, Londen 2004, p. 214-231
Y. Hadjinicolaou, 'Malen, Kratzen, Modellieren. Arent de Gelders Farbauftrag zwischen Innovation und Tradition', in: M. Rath, J. Trempler, i. Wederholm (eds.), Das haptische Bild. Körperhafte Bilderfahrung in der Neuzeit, Berlin 2013, p. 227–252
Y. Hadjinicolaou, 'Malerei auf Stein, steinerne Malerei. Die Farbgestaltung bei Spranger und de Gelder', in: J. van Gastel et al. (eds.), Paragone als Mitstreit, Berlin 2014, p. 211-235
M.L. Frederick, 'Imitatio and Aemulatio: Reevaluating Aert de Gelder's Self-Portrait as Zeuxis', Athanor 33 (2015), p. 43-63
Y. Hadjinicolaou, 'Arent de Gelders Porträts: Ein Paradoxaler Bruch mit der Tradition', Mnemosyne. Schriften des Internationalen Warburg-Kollegs (2016), p. 25-46
I. Beckmann, 'Wenn Köpfe zu viel denken, muss die Hand es richten [Review of Y. Hadjinicolaou, Denkende Körper - formende Hände 2016]', Kunstchronik 70 (2017) no. 6, p. 305-311

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Archive location: RKD archief RKD 1932-1974
Project: RemBench

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1991-12-15; Last modified date: 2023-10-11

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