Claes van Beresteyn
male / North Netherlandish
print artist, painter, draftsperson
- Name variations
- Claes van Beresteyn
Claes van Beeresteijn
Claes van Beresteijn
Nicolaes van Beresteyn
Claes van Beeresteyn
Nicolaes van Beresteijn - Monograms as
- CVB
His drawings are signed in monogram CVB (VB usually in ligature). This monogram had originally led to attributions to Cornelis Vroom and Adriaen Verboom. Nowadays several unsigned drawings and paintings have beenattributed to Van Beresteyn. - Nationality/school
- Born
- 1629
ca. 1629 - Deceased
- 1684-03-05
died 5 March, buried 10 March 1684 in the St. Bavokerk - Family relationships
- son of Paulus Arentsz van Beresteyn (1588-1636) and Catharina van der Eem (1589-1666)
- Qualifications
- Active in
- 1644 - 1684
He belonged to a prominent local family and his activities in the field of the arts must certainly be placed in his student years, probably between 1645 and 1655. Only two of his signed engravings are dated 1650. - Subjects
- Materials
- Pupil of
- Influenced By
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet , vol. 1 (1906), p. 70, vol. 3 (1911), p. 20
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon : die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker [Saur] , vol. 9 (1994), p. 282-283
Les artistes de Harlem : notices historiques avec un précis sur la Gilde de St. Luc [1870] , p. 80
Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Landscape and Marine painters working in oils, active before 1725 (typescript uit 1993-1998, in bewerking door en met aanvullingen van Marijke de Kinkelder, conservator Oude Kunst, RKD) (Claes van Beresteyn (c. 1629 - 5 March 1684). As other followers of Cornelis Vroom are being identified (latest example Jan II Claerhout), many of these attributions will have to be re-examined. Landscapes: Instituut Collectie Nederland. This panel is signed with monogram VB. A fully signed work is preserved in the Beresteyn family collection (photo RKD). (edited by M. de Kinkelder, 2014))
Dutch & flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 [LEESZAAL] , vol. 1 (1949), p. 193-201
Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler : von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart [Thieme Becker] {CATK} , vol. 3 (1909) p. 382
A checklist of painters c1200-1976 represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London [first ed.] - Visual Documentation
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