Jan van Huysum
Paintings
Bouquet Of Flowers Against A Park Landscape
Flower Still Life
Flowers in a Terracotta Vase on a Marble Ledge
Bouquet at a column
Hollyhocks and Other Flowers in a Vase
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Fruit Piece
A Still Life
Arcadian Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Still Life with Fruit on a Marble Ledge
Bouquet of Spring Flowers in a Terracotta Vase
Bouquet Of Flowers Against A Park Landscape
Hollyhocks and Other Flowers in a Vase
Drawings
Still Life with Flowers in a Vase
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Bouquet Of Flowers Against A Park Landscape
Jan van Huysum, also spelled Huijsum (April 15, 1682 – February 8, 1749), was a Dutch painter.
Biography
Portrait of Jan van Huysum, Arnold Boonen
He was the brother of Jacob van Huysum, the son of the flower painter Justus van Huysum, and the grandson of Jan van Huysum I, who is said to have been expeditious in decorating doorways, screens and vases. A picture by Justus is preserved in the gallery of Brunswick, representing "Orpheus and the Beasts in a wooded landscape", and here we have some explanation of his son's fondness for landscapes of a conventional and Arcadian kind; for Jan van Huysum, though skilled as a painter of still life, believed himself to possess the genius of a landscape painter.
Half of his pictures in public galleries are landscapes, views of imaginary lakes and harbours with impossible ruins and classic edifices, and woods of tall and motionless trees-the whole very glossy and smooth, and entirely lifeless. The earliest dated work of this kind is that of 1717, in the Louvre, a grove with maidens culling flowers near a tomb, ruins of a portico, and a distant palace on the shores of a lake bounded by mountains.
Legacy
Some of the finest of van Huysum's fruit and flower pieces have been in English private collections: those of 1723 in the earl of Ellesmere's gallery, others of 1730-1732 in the collections of Hope and Ashburton. One of the best examples is now in the National Gallery, London (1736–1737). No public museum has finer and more numerous specimens than the Louvre, which boasts of four landscapes and six panels with still life; then come Berlin and Amsterdam with four fruit and flower pieces; then St Petersburg, Munich, Hanover, Dresden, the Hague, Brunswick, Vienna, Carlsruhe, Boston and Copenhagen. Van Huysum had several followers, such as Jan van Os and Johannes de Bosch.
References
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press..
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