Moses van Uyttenbroeck
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Landscape, Mythological Narratives Art Work
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Moses van Uyttenbroeck |
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The Hague |
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Dutch |
| Birth: |
1595 |
| Death: |
1647 |
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Landscape, Mythological Narratives |
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Painting
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Biography
| Uyttenbroeck is considered one of the two principal landscape painters in The Hague in the first part of the century, Jan van Goyen being the other. Their approaches were entirely different. Uyttenbroeck's images were bucolic fantasies in which figures and the narrative (generally histories or mythologies) were important elements. His historical approach made him a logical candidate for a commission to help decorate Honselaarsdijk, Prince Frederik Hendrik's hunting castle. The place and date of Uyttenbroeck's birth are unknown. Though he spelled his name Wtenbrouck and Wttenbroeck, he never used Uyttenbroeck or Uytenbroeck, as was adopted by later scholars. Few dates secure his activity. We know he married Cornelia van Wijck around 10 December 1624. His first surviving dated work is an etching of 1615. He joined The Hague's painters' guild in 1620, became a deacon in 1627, and had pupils registered under him in 1631 In that year, and again in 1642, he sold a house in The Hague. It is generally assumed that he spent most of his life in that city. Payment was made in 1638 for his paintings decorating Prince Frederik Hendrik's palace at Honselaarsdijk, though only one of his painting survives. Uyttenbroeck continued to sell paintings to the court until 1646 and apparently sold pictures in Delft. By July 1647 his wife was declared a widow. Uyttenbroeck may have been in Rome around 1610, where the work of Paul Bril and Adam Elsheimer may have affected him. However, recent scholarship suggests Hendrick Goudt's prints, Pieter Lastman, and Jacob Pynas as his sources, and discounts an Italian journey. Nonetheless, Uyttenbroeck's oeuvre consists primarily of imaginary Italianate landscapes with subjects taken from the Old Testament and ancient mythology. About a third to half of his pictures are taken from Ovid. Today about seventy pictures are known. These have been divided into the following groups, the so-called "fantasy" Italian pictures done before 1622; "heroic" Italian scenes executed from roughly 1623 to 1630; "arcadian Dutch" landscapes done from about 1630 to 1640; and "ideal" landscapes done in the last decade of his life. In his earlier works, his narrative and figures take up the principal aspect of the image; his later works tend to give more emphasis to the landscape, which is frequently adorned with ruins and other arcadian elements. His etchings are related to Bloemaert. They are notable for the harmony of figures with nature and their general calm. |
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