Discover painter, draftsperson, watercolorist Adriaen van Ostade

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: Ostade, Adriaen Jansz. van

Monogram: AVO

AV.O (AV in ligature)

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, watercolorist, print artist, publisher of prints

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Haarlem (city) 1610-12/1610-12-19
baptized on 19 December 1610 (not on 10 December) in the Reformed Church in Haarlem. Houbraken wrongly assumed that he and his brother Isaac were born in Lübeck; this was corrected in Van der Willigen 1870.

Deceased: Haarlem (city) 1685-04/1685-05-02
buried on 2 May 1685

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Jan Hendricx van Ostade (died 1641) and Janniken Hendricx (died 1640). He married on 5 July 1638 to Machteltgen Pieters (died 1642). Brother of Mayken (1606-1663) and the painter Isack van Ostade. As a widower, Adriaen posted banns of marriage on 26 May 1657 with Anna Ingels (died 1666).

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576 hits in RKDimages as artist
52 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
7321 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
30 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Haarlem (stad) 1627
ca. 1627; pupil of Frans Hals (Houbraken 1718)
Utrecht (stad) 1632
Haarlem (stad) 1634 - 1672
in 1634 member of the Guild of Saint-Luke
Amsterdam (stad) 1672 - 1673
Haarlem (stad) 1673 - 1684

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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.: Hals, Frans (I)
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.: Bega, Cornelis
Dusart, Cornelis
Groot, Jan de (1650-1726)
Jongh, Frans de (?-1705)
Musscher, Michiel van
Ostade, Isaac van
Oudendijck, Evert
Steen, Jan
Wal, Jacob Marcus van der
Wijck, Thomas
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.: Brakenburgh, Richard
Coclers, Louis Bernard
Eemont, A. van
Naning, Jan
Nollekens, Josef Frans
Oets, Pieter
Sande, Thérèse ten
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Boot, J. (17de eeuw)
Busch, Ludwig Wilhelm
Caresme, Philippe
Cramer, Peter
Danhauser, Joseph
Dassonville, Jacques
Demarne, Jean-Louis
Ferg, Franz de Paula
Gensler, Martin
Jeaurat, Etienne
Lauréus, Alexander
Peat, Thomas
Taunay, Nicolas Antoine
Verelst, Pieter Hermansz.
Wilkie, David (Sir)

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), landscape (genre), portrait, winter landscape, architecture (genre), interior view, peasant genre, farm still life

Medium/technique: oil paint

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Haarlem)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 52 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

De Bie 1661-1662 , p. 258
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 347-349; vol. 2 (1719), p. 58, 128, 131,132, vol. 3 (1721), p. 211, 383 (as: Adriaan van Ostade)
Van der Willigen 1870 , p. 233-241 and passim
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2, p. 273-287
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1927 (English edition) , vol. 3 (1910), p. 140-556
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 26 (1932), p. 74-75 (as: Ostade, Adriaen van)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 246 (as: Ostade, Adriaen van)
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 15 [1964], p. 1-70 (as: Adriaen van Ostade)
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 233 (as: Ostade, Adriaen Jansz. van)
Sutton 1984 , p. 73
Van Thiel 1990-1991 , p. 55 note 73
Briels 1997 , p. 366-367
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 7, p. 487 (as: Ostade, Adriaen van)
Goosens 2001 , p. 248
Jonkman/Geudeker 2010 , p. 32 and passim
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 155 (as: Adriaen van Ostade)
Ebert 2013
Saur 1992- , vol. 93 (2017), p. 528 (Gero Seelig)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (III), Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 223-240; p. 240
W. von Bode, 'Die beide Ostade', Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst 27 (1916), p. 1-10
E. Trautscholdt, 'Notes on Adriaen van Ostade', The Burlington Magazine 54 (1929), p. 74-83
A. Bredius, 'Een en ander over Adriaen van Ostade', Oud-Holland 56 (1939), p. 241-246 (see also the reaction by J.F.M. Sterck in Oud-Holland 1940, p. 139)
R. Klessmann, 'Die Anfäng des Bauerninterieurs bei den Brüdern Ostade', Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen N.F. 2 (1960), p. 92-115
B. Haak, 'Adriaen van Ostade, landschap met oude eik', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 12 (1964), p. 5-11
E. Trautscholdt, 'Some Remarks on Drawings from the Studio and Circle of the Van Ostade Brothers', Master Drawings 5 (1967), p. 159-165
F. Novotny, 'Zu einer ''Kopie'' von Cézanne nach Ostade', Pantheon 25 (1967), p. 276-280, ill.
B. Schnackenburg, 'Die Anfänge des Bauerninterieurs bei Adriaen van Ostade', Oud Holland 85 (1970), p. 158-169
L.J. Slatkes, The Illustrated Bartsch 1. Netherlandish Artists, New York 1978, p. 327-363
R. Klessmann, 'Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade - Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. Gesamtdarstellung mit Werkkatalogen', The Burlington Magazine 128 (1986), p. 433-434 (review)
L. Slatkes, 'Preparatory Drawings for prints by Adriaen van Ostade', in: Drawings Defined, New York 1987, p. ?
R.M. Muthman, 'Adriaen van Ostade', Print Quarterly 11 (1994), p. 317-318
W. Pelletier, 'Van Ostade's Etchings Published by 'La Veuve Jean' ', Print Quarterly 11 (1994), p. 395-400
L. Haw-Miller, 'Van Ostade and the Civilised Peasant', Print Quarterly 15 (1998), p. 218-219
I. van Thiel-Stroman, 'Adriaen Jansz van Ostade‘, in: Painting in Haarlem 1500-1850. The collection of the Frans Hals Museum, Ghent-Haarlem 2006, p. 258-261
A. de Vries, 'Professie en strategie. Overdenkingen bij Adriaen van Ostades De schilder in zijn atelier', De zeventiende eeuw 23 (2007), p. 179-194
W.W. Robinson, 'The Abrams Album: An Album Amicorum of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeenth Century', Master Drawings 53 (2015), p. 3-58
P. van der Coelen, Notes: 'Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685)', Print Quarterly 34 (2017) no. 2, p. 201-203

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Archive location: archief Le Roy
archief Firma E.J. van Wisselingh & Co.

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1992-01-19; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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