Adriaen van Ostade, who like his younger brother Isaac was named after his place of birth, was one of the greatest Dutch genre painters of the 17th century.
Baptized on February 10, 1610 in Haarlem near Amsterdam.
Buried on May 02, 1685 in Haarlem.
Although it is not know for sure, researchers suppose that Adriaen van Ostade took a joint training with Adriaen Brouwer in the workshop of Frans Hals. They say that the influence of the farmer painter Adriaen Brouwer, who was well known for his wit and bluntness, can be clearly seen in Ostade's early works. Already in 1634, the painter became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke and 28 years later, he heads it as the dean. His early work was painted in miniatures and very detailed. It shows farmers amusing themselves with play, song and wine in taverns or outdoors. These pictures, which had been created for the bourgeois buyer, do not give a realistic representation of the rural population, but rather serve to amuse, but also to the moral education of the urban citizens, to whom the ribald hustle and bustle may seem very strange. However, Adriaen Brouwer remained the great master of these farmers' representations. From 1640, in contrast to him, Adriaen van Ostade changed to more civilized bourgeois urban portraits. Influenced by the chiaroscuro and the warm color of Rembrandt, also Ostade changed his way of coloring. |
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Oil Paintings