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Linking cultural industries in the early modern Low Countries, ca. 1475 - ca. 1725

Albert Eckhout

Portrait
Name:Albert Eckhout
Gender:male
Born:Groningen circa
Died:Groningen between and
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Mother:

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Attributes

Category Attribute Value Date startDate end
Religion DenominationReformed
Subject of painting Dierendierstukken
Subject of painting Genrefiguren
Subject of painting Landschapjachtscènes
Subject of painting Landschaplandschappen
Subject of painting Stillevenvruchtenstillevens

Relations

Relation Modifier Date startDate end
Artistic
courtly client of Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen
courtly client of Johann Georg II. von Sachsen

References

External biographical records

Primary sources

  1. Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam: DTB-registers (toegangsnummer 5001), 463: 195

Secondary sources

  1. Buvelot, Quentin (ed.) Albert Eckhout, een Hollandse kunstenaar in Brazilië, Zwolle: Waanders (2004)
  2. Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008)
  3. Haak, B., Hollandse schilders in de gouden eeuw, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff-Landshoff (1984)
  4. Meißner, Günter, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Teil 32, München-Leipzig: Saur (2002)
  5. Parker Brienen, Rebecca, Visions of savage paradise : Albert Eckhout, court painter in colonial Dutch Brazil, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2006)
  6. Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Band 10, Leipzig: Engelmann (1914)
  7. Thomsen, Thomas, Albert Eckhout: ein niederländischer Maler und sein Gönner Moritz der Brasilianer: ein Kulturbild aus dem 17. Jahrhundert, Kopenhagen: Levin og Munksgaard (1938)
  8. Van Gelder, H.E., 'Niet Eckhout, maar Jasper Becx', Oud-Holland 75 (1960), pp. 27-29
  9. Van der Willigen, Adriaan & Meijer, Fred G., A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils, 1525-1725, Leiden: Primavera Press (2003)