Hendrick van Anthonissen-Shipping in a Gale

Hendrick van Anthonissen (29 May 1605 - 12 November 1656) was a Dutch

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Biography

Van Anthonissen was born and died in

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. He was the son of Aert Anthonisz (a.k.a. Aart van Antum) and painted in the style of his brother-in-law and teacher

Jan Porcellis Jan Porcellis (1580/84 Ghent – 29 January 1632 Zoeterwoude) was a Dutch marine artist in the seventeenth century. His works initiated a "decisive transition from early realism to the tonal phase", fostering a new style and subject in mari ...

and of

Jan van Goyen Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapesm marines, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscape, cityscap ...

. He is the author of sea paintings in the Hermitage,

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and the Prague Gallery, which through their signatures have been ascribed to a mythical Hendrik van Antem. In the 1630s he lived in The Hague, Leiden, and Leiderdorp, but from 1642 he was back in Amsterdam. He is known for beach scenes and seascapes in the manner of Jan Porcellis, sometimes in

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. He was the father of the marine painter

Arnoldus van Anthonissen Arnoldus van Anthonissen (1631, Amsterdam – 1703, Zierikzee), was a Dutch Golden Age marine painter. Biography According to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) he was the son of the marine painter Hendrick van Anthon ...

Notable works

In 2014 one of Anthonissen's paintings ''View of Scheveningen Sands'', which was painted in 1641, underwent conservation at the

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. Restoration work uncovered a beached whale in the picture which had been obscured before 1873, when it was donated to the museum. File:View of Scheveningen sands, by Hendrick van Anthonissen.jpg, after restoration File:Hendrick van Anthonissen - View of Scheveningen sands before restauration in 2014.jpg, before restoration

References

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External links

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1605 births 1656 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch marine artists Painters from Amsterdam {{Netherlands-painter-stub