Hendrik van Minderhout (1632 – 22 July 1696) was a

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-born artist who was primarily active in the

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. He painted marine paintings, harbor scenes, cityscapes, landscapes and architectural paintings.Hendrik van Minderhout
at the

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He also collaborated as a staffage painter with Flemish landscape and perspective painters.Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, p. 876

Life

Hendrik van Minderhout - Fish market in Antwerp

Minderhout was born in

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. He should not to be confused with the Rotterdam landscape painter Minderhout named 'den groenen Ridder'.Trudy van Zadelhoff. "Minderhout, Hendrik van." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 10 January 2015 He arrived in Bruges in 1652. He may have spent time in Italy in 1653. In 1663, he joined Bruges'

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. Subsequently, from 1672 until his death in 1696, van Minderhout lived in Antwerp where he became a member of the local Guild of Saint Luke. He paid three guilders and painted a large canvas of an oriental port to

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's guild to be exempted from any guild duties including the obligation to serve as the deacon of the Guild.Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 986-988 In 1673, he married his second wife, Anna-Victoria Claus. The couple had five children, of whom two,

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(26 Sept 1675 – 22 Dec 1705) and Willem Augustin (28 Aug 1680 – 31 June 1752), became painters. He was the master of his son Willem Augustin, Lucas Smout the Younger,

Jacob Balthasar Peeters Jacob Balthasar Peeters, also known as Jacob Peeters or Jacobus Peeters (1660-61 – after 1721) was a Flemish painter who specialized in architectural paintings depicting imaginary Renaissance and Baroque palaces populated with elegant figures ...

and Nicolas de Veckere. He died in Antwerp.

Work

Hendrik van Minderhout - The Handelskom at Bruges - WGA15702

Hendrik van Minderhout mainly painted large views of seas and harbours and marine battles. He also created cityscapes, landscapes and architectural paintings. His subjects included realist views such as of the ports of Antwerp and Bruges, as well as imaginary views of Mediterranean and oriental ports. It has been suggested that the wide variety of works bearing the signature Hendrik van Minderhout points to the existence of two artists of the same name who were active at the same time. His later marine works are comparable to that of the Dutch seascape painter

Willem van de Velde the Younger Willem van de Velde the Younger (18 December 1633 (baptised)6 April 1707) was a Dutch Republic, Dutch marine painter, the son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, who also specialised in maritime art. His brother, Adriaen van de Velde, was a landsc ...

.Hans Vlieghe (1998).
Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585–1700
'. Pelican History of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press. Van Minderhout was appreciated as a staffage painter by his Antwerp colleagues. He contributed the figures to works by local landscape and perspective painters including

Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg or Willem Schubart van Ehrenberg (also: Wilhem Schubert von Ehrenberg or Wilhem Schubert van Ehrenberg ( Antwerp, 1630 or 1637– Antwerp, c. 1676) was a Flemish painter mainly active in Antwerp who specialized i ...

and

.Jacob Peeters and Hendrik van Minderhout, Gemäldepaar ''Fantastische höfische Architektur mit Figurenstaffage''
at Hampel Auctions

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Minderhout, Hendrik Van Flemish Baroque painters Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch marine artists Painters from Rotterdam Artists from Antwerp 1632 births 1696 deaths Painters from Bruges Painters from Antwerp