Arnold Houbraken

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Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660–14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht. His son Jacobus Houbraken (1698–1780) was a engraver of portraits and book illustrations, including books by his father.

[edit] Life

Houbraken studied with Jacobus Leveck and Samuel van Hoogstraten. In 1685 he married Sara Sasbout, and around 1709 he moved from Dordrecht to Amsterdam. He died in Amsterdam in 1780. Arnold Houbraken painted mythological and religious paintings, portraits and landscapes.

[edit] Books

Between 1718 and 1721, Arnold Houbraken wrote the book, De groote schouburgh der Neder­lantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters), which included biographies of seventeenth-century painters. The three-volumes follow the tradition of Het Schilderboeck by Carel van Mander (1604). Thirty years after Houbraken's death it was published for a second time, in expanded form. A facsimile of the second edition was published in Amsterdam in 1976.

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