Richard Brakenburgh

Richard Brakenburgh or Brakenburg (22 May 1650, in Haarlem – 28 December 1702, in Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Arnold Houbraken he was a light-hearted poet from Haarlem.[1] He was the pupil of Hendrik Mommers who went on to paint clever genre scenes in the manner of Adriaen van Ostade.[1] Though some said he was the pupil of Bernard Schendel, they were the same age and painted in similar styles.[1] He was successful enough at his art that his Frisian widow was able to purchase an annuity after his death in Friesland.[1]

According to the RKD he is registered in Leeuwarden during the years 1670-1687.[2] He is known for both Italianate landscapes and portraits.[2] He painted similar subjects to those of Schendel, representing merry-makings and drunken assemblies. His pictures are ingeniously composed, and well coloured, something in the manner of Adriaen van Ostade, though greatly inferior. They are painted with facility, although they have the appearance of being very highly finished; and he perfectly understood the management of chiaroscuro. His greatest defect is his incorrect drawing of the figure, which he appears not to have studied from nature. The Vienna Gallery has two 'Peasant Scenes' by him, said to have been painted in 1690; the Berlin Museum one, and the Amsterdam Gallery one. In the Brussels Gallery is a 'Children's Feast,' signed and dated 1698; and the Rotterdam Museum has a 'Doctor's Visit,' signed and dated 1696. In Windsor Castle are two good 'Artists' Studios ' by him. He also sometimes practised the art of engraving.

He was the teacher of Wigerus Vitringa, Abraham Pardanus, and Gillis de Winter. He was a follower of Jan Steen.[2] He died at Haarlem in December 1702 and was buried in January 1703.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 (Dutch) Reinier Brakenburg in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. 1 2 3 4 Richard Brakenburgh in the RKD

This article incorporates text from the article "BRAKENBURG, Richard" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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