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Adam Christiaensz Pynacker or Pijnacker (15 February 1622, Schiedam - buried 28 March 1673,
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Biography

Pynacker was the son of a wine merchant, who was a member of the ''vroedschap'', or city regency. He travelled to Italy and was gone for three years. In 1658 he converted to Catholicism in order to marry Eva Maria de Geest, Wybrand de Geest's daughter. Two years later his portrait was painted by his father-in-law as a pendant to an earlier portrait of his wife. In Schiedam he baptized two children, but from 1661 until he died, he lived on the
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Wedding portraits

De Geest was a highly successful portrait painter who painted his daughter in 1652 and two years after their marriage he painted his new son-in-law's portrait in a matching style as pendant: File:Wybrand de Geest - Adam Joseph Pynacker.jpg, Adam Pynacker, by his father-in-law File:Wybrand de Geest - Eva de Geest.jpg, Eva de Geest, Pynnacker's wife


Legacy

Pynacker is considered an example of an ''Italianate landscape painter'', along with
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, Jan Baptist Weenix,
Nicolaes Berchem Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genr ...
and
Jan Asselyn Jan Asselijn (c.1610 – October 1, 1652) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Asselijn was born at Dieppe from a French Huguenot family as ''Jean Asselin''. He received instruction from Esaias van de Velde (1587–1630), and distingu ...
. He specialized in decorating whole rooms. According to Houbraken, he would turn in his grave if he knew how the fashions had changed, but the poet P. Verhoek wrote a poem about one of his decorated rooms. Pijnacker's "Deer Hunt," which had been looted from Belgium, turned up on the Russian art market in 2009.


References

* Wassenbergh, A. (1969) ''Het huwelijk van Adam Pijnacker en Eva Maria de Geest''. In: De Vrije Fries, diel 49, pp. 93–95.


External links


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Works and literature on Adam Pynacker
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Vermeer and The Delft School
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Adam Pynacker
Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Hermitage
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Adam Pynacker (cat. no. 20) {{DEFAULTSORT:Pynacker, Adam 1622 births 1673 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters People from Schiedam