Adriaen van Eemont (1626 – 10 September 1662) was a
Dutch Golden Age
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painter.
Biography
Van Eemont was born and died in
Dordrecht
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. According to Houbraken he was "as good a bird painter as
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (; 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscap ...
.Adriaan van Emont Biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by
Arnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
, courtesy of the
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Houbraken had mentioned him twice earlier; as a specialist in painting water birds and plants, and as the teacher of the Dordrecht painter Johannes Offermans.
According to the RKD he is known for fruit still lifes and is possibly the same person as the landscape painter who signed with the monogram "AVE".Adriaen van Eemont in the
RKD
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He worked in Amsterdam, Heusden and France. In France he traveled with Frederik de Moucheron to Paris and Lyon.
There is still some uncertainty about the nature of his work; though Houbraken was so certain that he had specialized in birds and plants, the
Dordrechts Museum
Dordrechts Museum is an art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1842 and has a collection of artists of the last 400 years.
Paintings
The museum has works of the following artists:
Gallery
File:Portrait of Cornelis van ...
has a work by him that is more reminiscent of Haarlem works such as those by
Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 December 1610 – buried 2 May 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women.
Life
According to Arnold Houbraken, he and his brot ...
His monogram "AVE" has also been interpreted as "NF" for Nicolaes Ficke, a 17th-century painter from Haarlem. The group of monogrammed paintings thus identified are considered to be paintings in the "Haarlem landscape style". An example of such a painting that was formerly attributed to
Jan Wijnants
Jan Jansz Wijnants (alternatively Wynants) (1632 – buried 23 January 1684) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
He was born in Haarlem, the son of a Catholic art dealer also named Jan Wijnants.Adriaen van Eemont on
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