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Abraham van Dijck

Kwalificaties
schilder, tekenaar
Nationaliteit/school
Noord-Nederlands (school)
Geboren
Dordrecht (stad) 1635
c. 1635. His year of birth is derived from a notarial deed in 1661 in Amsterdam, which states that he is then 25 years old (Saur 2000; De Witt 2020). According to Ecartico he was born in Dordrecht, where his father was born and where his parents got married; Willigen/Meijer 2003, p. 73 states without corroboration: probably born Amsterdam.
Overleden
Dordrecht (stad) 1680-08/1680-08-27
buried on 27 August 1680; the identification by Bredius with an Abraham van Dijk who was buried in Amsterdam on 26 February 1672 is incorrect (Loughman 2006, p. 266, p. 268 and note 12)
Familierelaties
in dit veld wordt een familierelatie met één of meer andere kunstenaars vermeld.
son of Leendert van Dijck (c. 1583-1674) and Hilleken Matheus: the couple was married in Dordrecht on 9 August 1620. He had three sisters (Beatris (born 1623), Sara (born 1637) and Helena (born 1642) and three brothers, Mattheus (born 1629), Hugo and Jan (born 1631).
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Biografische gegevens
Werkzame periode
1655 - 1667
dated works between 1655 and 1667
Werkzaam in
Hier wordt vermeld waar de kunstenaar (langere tijd) heeft gewerkt en in welke periode. Ook relevante studiereizen worden hier vermeld.
  • Dordrecht (stad) 1648 - 1651
  • Amsterdam (stad) 1651 - 1654
    De Witt 2020, p. 13; an apprenticeship with Rembrandt is not documented, but on stylistic grounds it is assumed that Abraham van Dijck was apprenticed to Rembrandt around 1650. His earliest signed and dated paintings date from 1655.
  • Dordrecht (stad) 1654 - 1660
    probably returned to Dordrecht in 1654-1655. Based on Terwesten/Hoet 1770, is has wrongly been assumed that he also spent time in Alkmaar, for which is no archival evidence (Loughman 2006, p. 266; De Witt 2020, p. 14).
  • Amsterdam (stad) 1660 - 1661
    returned to Amsterdam in or shortly before 1660 (De Witt 2020, p. 15-17, Loughman 2006, p. 267-268). Although is is not fully impossible that he spent time in England (c. 1662), it is very unlikely. The confusion stems from Houbraken and was adopted by Von Wurzbach and other authors. Beaujean in Saur 2000 rightly assumes that Houbraken apparently confuses Abraham with Anthony van Dyck when he mentions an Abraham van Dijck who painted modern compositions and spent most of his life in England. See also Loughman 2006, De Witt 2020.
  • Dordrecht (stad) 1667 - 1680
    1667 last dated work, died in 1680 (Loughman 2006, p. 266, 273)
geboren
werkzaam in
overleden
Onderwerpen
In dit veld worden de diverse onderwerpscategorieën of genres vermeld die in het oeuvre van de beschreven kunstenaar voorkomen. De inhoud van dit veld is doorgaans meer gebaseerd op het aanwezige beeldmateriaal in het RKD dan op de literatuur.
christelijk religieuze voorstelling, portret, architectuur (genre), marktscène, genrevoorstelling, stilleven
Materiaal/techniek
olieverf
Ingevoerd op: 1991-12-14; Laatste wijziging: 2023-02-09

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