New issue: Oud Holland 136 (2023) 1
New information on Adriaen van de Venne and more
This year, we open our pages with new biographical information on the seventeenth-century painter Adriaen van de Venne. This data has recently become available through several digitized archival records from the Ecartico database. Combining their discoveries, Edwin Buijsen and Harm Nijboer reshape our understanding of Van de Venne’s milieu and family network.
In-depth technical and archival research on Ferdinand Bol’s portrait of Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp of c. 1675-1676 has revealed fascinating insights about the creation of the painting. Demonstrating that Bol continued to paint after his marriage with Anna van Erckel in 1669, Margriet van Eikema Hommes, Inez van der Werf, Piet Bakker and Kathrin Kirsch argue that the painting testifies to a close relation between the Bol and Tromp families.
We close this issue with the remarkable nineteenth-century Rotterdam art collector Fop Smit Jr. Due to a recently discovered photo album in the collection of the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, Evelien de Visser was able to reconstruct Smit’s extensive collection of as many as 240 contemporary European paintings, among them works by renowned artists of the Barbizon School. She further explains how Smits collection relates to that of his peers.
Summaries of these articles can be found below.
We are also happy to share that the RKD database has recently been enriched with articles that appeared in Oud Holland in 2015-2017 (volumes 128-130). They can now be consulted and downloaded in pdf-format for free. To do so, search for them by title. The RKDlibrary will then provide an entry to the article with a link to the pdf under ‘Bestandsidentificatie’. The complete list of the newly available articles can be found on Brills’ website.
Among others, these open access articles include: Katrien Lichtert on Pieter Bruegel I’s journey to Italy (OH 2015-1); Edwin Buijsen on De Sinne-cunst of Adriaen van de Venne (OH 2015-2/3); Maartje Stols-Witlox on the influence of the colour of ground layers on artists’ working methods (OH 2015-4); Xander van Eck on two paintings by the Crabeths brothers in the Sint Janskerk in Gouda (OH 2016-1); Margriet van Eikema Hommes and Piet Bakker on the wall hanging in the Hofkeshuis in Almelo (OH 2016-2); Eva Geudeker on nineteenth-century traveling artists from The Hague and Rotterdam (OH 2016-3/4); Alison M. Kettering on Rembrandt’s portrait of Dijkgraaf Dirck van Os (OH 2017-1/2); and Robert E. Gerhardt on the image of the physician as God in Netherlandish art (OH 2017-3/4).
Oud Holland wishes our readers a fruitful reading time.
