Arnold Houbraken: Difference between revisions

| image = Arnold Houbraken3Houbraken, attributed to Arnold Houbraken.JPGjpg

| caption = <small>'''PortraitAttributed byto his son [[JacobArnold Houbraken]]''</small>

| birth_name = Arnold Houbraken

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1660|3|28|mfdf=y}}

| birth_place = [[Dordrecht]], [[Dutch Republic]]

| death_date = {{deathDeath date and age|1719|10|14|1660|3|28|mfdf=y}}

| death_place = [[Amsterdam]], Dutch Republic

| field = [[Painting]], [[Engravingengraving]], [[Artart Historyhistory]]

'''Arnold Houbraken''' (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Painting|painter]] and writer from [[Dordrecht]], now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the [[Dutch Golden Age]]. He had ten children. His son [[Jacobus Houbrakenpainter]] (1698–1780) was an [[engraver]] of portraits and book illustrations, including books by his father. His daughter [[Antonina Houbraken]] also became an engraver for an Amsterdam publisher, and is known today for her embellishment of cityscapes and buildings with animals and peoples.

Arnold Houbraken's books sold quite well during the entire 18th century. [[Jacob Campo Weyerman]] published his updated version (1729–47) in serial form that was published as a complete set in 1769.<ref>{{cite webbook|url=httphttps://books.google.nlcom/books?id=rUxbAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA409&dqq=jacob+campo+weyerman&pg=RA1-PA409 |title=Jacob Campo Weyerman on Google books |publishervia=[[Google Books.google.nl]] |access-date= |accessdate=2012-06-13|last1=Weyerman |first1=Jacob Campo |year=1769 }}</ref> Houbraken's engravings of the artists are in some cases the only surviving portraits of these people.

The first to make a published sequel to Houbraken's work was [[Johan van Gool]] in 1750-511750–51.<ref>{{cite webbook|url=httphttps://books.google.nlcom/books?id=9IwZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dqq=johan+van+gool |title=Johan van Gool in Google books |publishervia=[[Google Books.google.nl]] |access-date= |accessdate=2012-06-13|last1=Gool |first1=Johan van |year=1751 }}</ref> Though these books published well, with changing fashions, during the course of the 19th century Houbraken fell out of favor with art historians, especially when his sketches were found wanting, incorrect, or even slanderous. Houbraken was very careful to check and double check his sources, and today many of his personal judgements still stand up to our modern scrutiny. Attacks of his judgement due to the spelling of artist's names or accusations that he was nationalistic and deemed all of these artists as "Netherlandish" must be dismissed on the grounds that the various borders between the Netherlands, Germany, and Flanders were far from decided in the period during which he was writing, and spelling conventions in the Netherlands regarding names were only introduced by Napoleonic decree in the 1790s. Excepting those cases where the artist died quite young, or whose oeuvre was lost during various wars, very few artists were included in the ''Schouburg'' who do not hang in international museums today.

The first modern art historian to publish an update of his work was [[Adriaan van der Willigen]], in 1866.<ref>{{cite webbook|url=httphttps://books.google.nlcom/books?id=kF5GAAAAYAAJ&dqq=Adriaan+van+der+Willigen |title=Adrian van der Willigen in Google books |publishervia=[[Google Books.google.nl]] |date=2008-09-02 |accessdateaccess-date=2012-06-13|last1=Eynden |first1=Roeland van |last2=Willigen |first2=Adriaan van der }}</ref> Since then he has remained a valuable resource for art historians.

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