All MINDERHOUT, Hendrik van's oil paintings
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96078 Interior of a Church with a Family in the Foreground Interior of a Church with a Family in the Foreground 1630s Medium oil on canvas cyf
8230 The Handelskom at Bruges sg The Handelskom at Bruges sg 1665 Oil on canvas, 159,5 x 237 cm Groeninge Museum, Bruges
MINDERHOUT, Hendrik van
Flemish painter (b. 1632, Rotterdam, d. 1696, Antwerpen). Dutch painter, active in the southern Netherlands. For unknown reasons, he was known as the 'Green Knight of Rotterdam'. In 1644 he married Margareta van den Broecke, and in 1652 he went to Bruges, where in 1663 he entered the Guild of St Luke; the marine painting that he submitted to the Guild to become a member used to be displayed in the Salle d'Acad?mie as a companion piece to the picture submitted by Rubens on his entry to the Guild. In 1672 van Minderhout moved to Antwerp, where he was admitted to the Guild the same year and where, in return for exemption from all obligations as a guild member, he presented a large canvas representing an Eastern seaport. In 1673 he married his second wife, Anna-Victoria Claus. They had five children, including two sons, Antoon van Minderhout (b 26 Sept 1675; d 22 Dec 1705) and Willem August van Minderhout (b 28 Aug 1680; d 31 June 1752), who also became painters. Hendrik van Minderhout painted mostly sea and harbour views, in the tradition of Jan Baptist Weenix and Johannes Lingelbach. His subjects included the port of Antwerp, as well as imaginary views of Mediterranean harbours and oriental seaports . Related Artists to : | BOLTRAFFIO, Giovanni Antonio | Stacy Tolman | BUGIARDINI, Giuliano | Walter Crane | George Cattermole |