Discover painter, draftsperson Bartholomeus van der Helst

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Bartholomeus van der Helst

male / North Netherlandish (school)

painter, draftsperson

Name variations

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: Elst, Bartel van der
Elst, Bartelmeus van der
Elst, Bartholomeus van der
Helst, Bartel van der
Helst, Bartelmeus van der
Verelst, Bartel
Verelst, Bartelmeus
Verelst, Bartholomeus
Verhelst, Bartel
Verhelst, Bartelmeus
Verhelst, Bartholomeus

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school)

Born: Haarlem (city) 1613
c. 1613

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1670-12/1670-12-16
buried on 16 December 1670

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of Lodewyck Lowys van der Helst (ca. 1579-1638) and Aeltgen Bartels (died 1636); married in Amsterdam on 4 May 1636 to Anna du Pire (1617-1679). They had two childeren: Susanna van der Helst (1638-1703) and Lodewijck van der Helst (born 1642), who also was a painter.

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).

Willem van de Velde II often painted sea backgrounds in Van der Helst's portraits.

This person/entity in other databases

296 hits in RKDimages as artist
20 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1714 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
17 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Haarlem (stad)
Amsterdam (stad) 1636 - 1670
married in 1636 in Amsterdam

born in

active in

died in

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.: Pickenoy, Nicolaes Eliasz.
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.: Helst, Lodewijk van der

also had a Marcus Watusz. (who also was an actor in the 'schouwburg') as a pupil in 1652 for one year (De Jager 1990)
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Flinck, Govert
Lesueur, Eustache
Hansen, Constantin
Sanders, Alexander

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.: portrait

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 20 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 269, 370, vol. 2 (1719), p. 9-10, 24, 131, vol. 3 (1721), p. 330 (as: Bartolomeus vander Helst)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 8, 1 (1867), p. 502-505 (as: Bartholomeus van der Helst)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 670-673 (as: Bartholomäus van der Helst)
Granberg 1911-1913 , vol. 1 (1911), p. 59-60
Bredius 1915-1921 , vol. 2 (1916), p. 394-421; vol. 7 (1921), p. 104-106, 298-301
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 16 (1923), p. 355-357
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 386 (as: van der Helst)
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 9 [1953], p. 9-11
Witt Checklist 1978
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 14, p. 373-374
Briels 1997 , p. 336
Jonkman/Geudeker 2010 , p. 15 and passim
Saur 1992- , vol. 71 (2011), p. 403
Van Gent 2011 , passim
Boschloo et al. 2011 , p. 393-406 (F. Grijzenhout, 'Michiel van Musscher and Bartholomeus van der Helst: Theft of honour or creative Imitation?')
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

I.H. van Eeghen, 'Bartholomeus van der Helst en het Spinhuis', Maandblad Amstelodamum 52 (1965), p. 119-122
C.J. de Bruyn Kops, 'Vergeten zelfportretten van Govert Flinck en Bartholomeus van der Helst', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 13 (1965), p. 20-29
S.S. Dickey, 'Bartholomeus van der Helst and admiral Cortenaer: realism and idealism in Dutch heroic portraiture', Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 8 (1989), p. 227-245
R. de Jager, ‘Meester, leerjongen, leertijd. Een analyse van zeventiende-eeuwse Noord-Nederlandse leerlingcontracten van kunstschilders, goud- en zilversmeden’, Oud Holland 104 (1990), p. 69-111, esp. p. 98, no. 10
D. Meyerman, 'Een verrassende olieverfschets door Bartholomeus van der Helst', Rotterdams jaarboekje 2010, p. 164-175
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Gabriel Marselis en Maria van Arckel in de duinen bij Haarlem. Twee portretten door Bartholomeus van der Helst uit 1655', Maandblad Amstelodamum 99 (2012), p. 161-182
N. Middelkoop, J. van Gent, M.J. Bok, W. Kloek (eds.), De Amsterdamse schutterstukken. Inrichting en gebruik van de doelengebouwen in de zeventiende eeuw', Jaarboek van het Genootschap Amstelodamum 105 (2013) (special volume)
F. Laarmann-Westdijk, review of Van Gent 2011, Oud Holland 128 (2015), p. 59-61

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Project: Gerson Digital : United Kingdom

External links: this artist in the British Museum
this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1992-02-07; Last modified date: 2023-02-24

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