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Arnold van Boonen (16 December 1669 – 2 October 1729) was a Dutch portrait painter.
File:Jan van Huysum - portrait by Arnold Boonen.jpg, Portrait of
Arnold van Boonen (16 December 1669 – 2 October 1729) was a Dutch portrait painter.
Life
He was born at Dordrecht, in the Dutch Republic in 1669. He was a pupil first of Arnold Verbuis, and then of Godefried Schalken. He painted genre pictures in the style of the latter, representing subjects by candlelight, but met with such encouragement in portrait painting that he devoted himself almost wholly to that branch of art. His style was well adapted to succeed in it. An excellent colourist, a faithful designer of his model, and highly skilled, he was soon distinguished as one of the ablest artists of his day. He painted a great number of portraits of the most distinguished people of his time, among whom werePeter the Great
Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...
, the Elector of Mentz, the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Prince and Princess of Orange, the great Duke of Marlborough, and several others. He painted some large pictures for the halls of the different companies at Amsterdam and Dordrecht. He died in 1729.
The Dresden Gallery has seven works by him, and the ''Woman Singing'' in the Lille Gallery is also attributed to him. His son, Kasper van Boonen, also painted portraits, but in no way proved himself equal to his father.
Gallery
Jan van Huysum
Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; “by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held ...
, c. 1720
File:Arnold Boonen (attr) A young boy holding a tambourine.jpg, A young boy holding a tambourine, c. 1729
File:Arnold Boonen - Portrait of 3 van der Elst children.jpg, Family portrait of 3 Children of the van der Elst van der Elst or Van Der Elst is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the alder (woods)". The forms ''Elst'' and ''Van Elst'' may also refer to an origin in the city of Elst, Gelderland, the town Elst, Utrecht, or other villages by that name.
family blowing soap bubbles using a pipe by Dutch painter Arnold Boonen.
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* 1669 births 1729 deaths Artists from Dordrecht 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Dutch portrait painters {{Netherlands-painter-stub