Discover painter, decorative painter (of interiors), draftsperson Gerard Hoet (I)

Qualifications: painter, decorative painter (of interiors), draftsperson, etcher, mezzotinter, member of family of artists, art dealer (person)

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Zaltbommel (place) 1648-08-22

Deceased: The Hague (city) 1733-12-02

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Moses Hoet; married in Utrecht on 2 May 1688 to Francina Mor, father of Hendrik Jacob Hoet and Gerard Hoet II

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).

Bodart made prints after drawings by Hoet, which were published in books

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207 hits in RKDimages as artist
7 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDlibrary as illustrator
1175 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Zaltbommel (plaats) 1664 - 1672
Den Haag (stad) 1672
because of the war (Houbraken 1721)
Zaltbommel (plaats)
went back to Zaltbommel to meet the French commander and art lover Count de Salis (Houbraken 1721), who is identical to Rodolphe de Salis-Zizers (R. van Leeuwen 2021)
Rees 1672
Hoet travelled to Rees in 1672 with Count de Salis and met there the artists Justus van den Nijpoort, Jan van Bunnik and Andries de With (Houbraken 1721).
Parijs 1672 - 1673
stayed here for more than a year (Houbraken 1721)
Brussel 1673 - 1674
stayed here for eight months (Houbraken 1721)
Zaltbommel (plaats) 1674
Utrecht (stad) 1674
Brussel 1674
on the advice of Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (Houbraken 1721)
Utrecht (stad) 1674 - 1714
c. 1674-1714
Oud-Zuilen 1678
Den Haag (stad) 1715 - 1733

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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.: Hoet, Moses
Rijsen, Warnard van
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.: Bunnick, Jan van
Hoet, Gerard (II)
Hoet, Hendrik Jacob
Ravesteyn, Nicolaes van (II)

possibly teacher of Nicolaes van Ravesteyn II (Buijsen)
Follower of: Breenbergh, Bartholomeus
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.: Arentzen, Adr.
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Bys, Johann Rudolf

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.: mythology, Christian religious scene, portrait, genre

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 7 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 128; vol. 3 (1721), p. 138, 199, 239-242 (as: Gerard Hoed)
Van Gool 1750-1751 , vol. 2 (1751), p. 415-422
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 8, 2 (1867), p. 868-869 (as: Gerard Hoet)
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 4, p. 40, 41; vol. 5, p. 141
Muller 1880 , passim
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 696-697
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 17 (1924), p. 224
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 22, 56, 67, 203
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 143
Witt Checklist 1978
Bolten 1985 (Drawing Books)
Buijsen/Dumas et al. 1998 , p. 315-316
Bénézit 1999 , p. 99
Saur 1992- , vol. 74 (2012), p. 40-41 (text R. Treydel)
Buijsen et al. 2014 , p. 48-61 (P. van der Coelen, 'De ontstaansgeschiedenis van de prentenbijbel van Hoet, Houbraken en Picart' (see for an incomplete series of original prints from this bible in the RKD collection: BD/0280, Original Prints))
Aono 2015 , passim
Schoemaker 2018 , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

S. Muller Fz., 'Utrechtsche schildersvereenigingen', Oud-Holland 22 (1904), p. 1-11
Dom. A. Beekman, 'Het Kasteel "de Slangenburg" en zijn kunstschatten', Bijdragen en mededelingen van Gelre 48 (1946), p. 101-171
E.J. Sluijter, 'Een zaalbeschildering van Gerard Hoet in 'De Slangenburg': de liefdesgeschiedenis van Aeneas en Dido', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 31 (1980), p. 299-315
J. Berends, 'Frederik Johan van Baer, kasteelheer en generaal Slangenburg 1645-1713', Jaarboek Achterhoek en Liemers 2009, p. 7-21 (especially p. 15-16)

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
Gerson Digital : France
Gerson Digital : Germany

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1992-01-10; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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