Ignacio Sorgh
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Genre subjects, Religious Subjects Art Work
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Ignacio Sorgh |
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Rotterdam |
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Dutch |
| Birth: |
1609 |
| Death: |
1670 |
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Quick Facts
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Genre subjects, Religious Subjects |
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Biography
| One of the leading genre painters in Rotterdam, Sorgh developed a manner of treating kitchen interiors and market scenes (his favorite themes) that was somewhat related to that of Teniers in Antwerp as well as Adriaen Brouwer and Isack and Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem. Like other Rotterdammers, Sorgh did not specialize in genre scenes (though he is best known for them), producing also marine themes and occasional portraits. Sorgh was born sometime between 1609 and 1611 in Rotterdam. A self portrait mentioned by Houbraken, dated 1645, gave his age as thirty-four, but a document of 1646 states that Sorgh was about thirty-seven that year. Sorgh's father, MaerteN Claesz, was named Rochusse or Rokes. Sorgh did not use this name, adopting instead his father's nickname, "Zorgh," earned for the care he used in handling cargo while working as a bargeman. A pupil of David Teniers and Willem Buytewech (according to Houbraken), Sorgh would have had to study with Buytewech before 1624, the year of Buytewech's death. Scholars have discounted such an apprenticeship owing to the lack of evidence in Sorgh's surviving work, which shows the distinct influence of Teniers and Brouwer. By 1630 Sorgh was documented in Rotterdam (drawing up a will); in 1633 he married there; in 1637 he purchased a rather costly house; he held several civic posts (market barge skipper, bread weigher, fire chief, and in 1659 hoofdman (leader) of the Rotterdam Guild). He remained in Rotterdam for the rest of his life; after his death in 1670 he was buried in the Grote Kerk. Sorgh's earliest dated surviving picture is a portrait of 1641, but in the same decade he produced genre scenes such as the Peasant Interior with Violinist (signed and dated 1647, Stockholm, National Museum). His beautifully described interior spaces probably owe something to the Delft school, while his detailed and smoothly rendered figures and costumes reflect the Leiden fine painters. By the 1650s Sorgh was also producing market scenes, such as Fishmarket at Rotterdam (dated 1654, Kassel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen), which feature a female vendor in the foreground (usually set to one side) and a view of the town in the middle and background. Scholars have pointed out the influence of Jan Steen in Sorgh's later genre scenes; his occasional marine subject, such as Storm on the River Maas (signed and dated 1668, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum), shows Sorgh's study of the work of Jan Porcellis. Sorgh's followers include Adriaen Lucasz Fondteyn (d. 1661), Gerrit Lundens (1622-ca. 1677), and Hendrik Potuyl (active ca. 1639); his pupils include Pieter Crijnse Volmarijn (ca. 1629-79) and Cornelis Dorsman (active ca. 1660). |
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