Discover painter, draftsperson, decorative painter (of interiors) Johannes Voorhout (I)

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: Hout, I. van
Voorhout, Jan (I)

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, decorative painter (of interiors), court painter
painted for the court in Gottorf

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Uithoorn (place) 1647-11-11
Houbraken 1721, p. 224

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1717-08/1717-08-25
buried 25 August 1717 (GA, Amsterdam)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of the watchmaker Cornelis Voorhout (died before 1671), brother Cornelis Voorhout (II), watchmaker. Married (no lace, no date) c. 1670 Margaretha Vos (died in Amsterdam 1723). Father of painter Johannes Voorhout II (c. 1676-1750 and Cornelia (1689/90-1756), married to Jan Duruel, merchant in mirrors.

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Ovens, Jürgen

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Gouda (plaats) 1662 - 1664
from c. 1662 pupil of Constantijn Verhout in Gouda (Houbraken)
Amsterdam (stad) 1664 - 1672
pupil of Jan van Noordt 1664-1669 (Houbraken)
Friedrichstadt (an der Eider) 1672
fled in 1672 for the French invasion to Friedrichstadt, where he met Jürgen Ovens
Gottorf
painted for the court in Gottorf, probably decorative items (Gerson 1942/1984, p. 211)
Hamburg (stad) 1672 - 1675
stayed here for three years (Houbraken); returned to Amsterdam with Ernst Stuven, whom he taught for a short while (Saur 2022)
Amsterdam (stad) 1675 - 1717
became a citizen of Amsterdam in 1707 (GA, Amsterdam)

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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.: Noordt, Jan van
Verhout, Constantijn
According to Houbraken he was for 6 years a pupil of Constantijn Verhout and for 5 years a pupil of Jan van Noordt.
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.: Stuven, Ernst
Voorhout, Johannes (II)

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.: allegory, Christian religious scene, genre, portrait, history (genre), mythology

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 1 hit in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 2 (1719), p. 200; vol. 3 (1721), p. 185, 186, 224-228, 372, 386
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 811-812 (as: Johannes Voorhout I.)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 34 (1940), p. 543 (as: Voorhout, Johannes, I)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 211, 216, 221 (as: Johan Voorhout)
Witt Checklist 1995 , p. 526 (as: Voorhout, Johannes, I)
DeWitt 2000 , p. 12, 20-21
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 210 (as: Johannes (I) Voorhout)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]
Saur 1992- , vol. 114 (2022), p. 103

S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Ruim honderd advertenties van kunstverkopingen uit de Amsterdamsche Courant 1711-1725', Jaarboek Amstelodamum 69 (1977), p. 107-122; no. 230 (probate inventory of his widow; death year of Johannes mentioned: 1717)
A.Tacke, ‘Das tote Jahrhundert. Anmerkungen zur Forschung über die deutsche Malerie des 17. Jahrhunderts’, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 51 (1997), p. 32-70, esp. p. 48
X. van Eck, 'The artist's religion: paintings commissioned for clandestine Catholic churches in the Northern Netherlands, 1600-1800', Simiolus 27 (1999), p. 70-94; p. 90
R. Schillemans, 'Zeventiende- en vroegachttiende-eeuwse wisselaltaarstukken in de Amsterdamse Begijnhofkerk', De Zeventiende Eeuw 15 (1999), p. 204-221
X. van Eck, Clandestine Splendor. Paintings for the Catholic church in the Dutch Republic, Zwolle 2007
T. van Run, Johannes Voorhout (1647-1717). De contemporaine waardering van een in Amsterdam werkzame historie-, portret- en genreschilder aan het eind van de zeventiende eeuw (unpublished paper January 2009, University of Amsterdam)

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

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Creation date: 1992-02-01; Last modified date: 2023-05-17

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