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Izaak van Oosten, Isaak van Oosten or Isaac van Oosten (sometimes, due to a repeated typographical error: Izaak van Costen)Isaac van Oosten
at Floris van Wanroij Fine Art website (10 December 1613 – December 1661) was a Flemish
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Isaac van Oosten
at Haldane Fine Art website
It is believed he painted for his father's shop and therefore did not initially register with the Guild. It wasn't until he was already 39 years old, in 1652, that he became a master in the Antwerp
Izaak van Oosten, Isaak van Oosten or Isaac van Oosten (sometimes, due to a repeated typographical error: Izaak van Costen)Isaac van Oostenat Floris van Wanroij Fine Art website (10 December 1613 – December 1661) was a Flemish
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...
and cabinet
Cabinet or The Cabinet may refer to:
Furniture
* Cabinetry, a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors and/or drawers
* Display cabinet, a piece of furniture with one or more transparent glass sheets or transparent polycarbonate sheets
* Filing ...
painter active in Antwerp.Izaak van Oostenat the Netherlands Institute for Art History Isaac van Oosten
at Haldane Fine Art website
Life
Little is known about his life and training. He was born inAntwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
as the son of an art dealer with the same name who had become a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke
The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was ide ...
in 1617. There is no record of where he received his training or with which master(s) he studied.
It is believed he painted for his father's shop and therefore did not initially register with the Guild. It wasn't until he was already 39 years old, in 1652, that he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke
The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was ide ...
; after the Guild had insisted he join and pay his dues. He was active there for only about a decade.Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 1092–1094
He died in Antwerp in 1661 without leaving any known offspring.
Work
Van Oosten specialized in landscape paintings and panels for Antwerp cabinets. His compositions appear to have been popular and incorporate all the elements of theAntwerp school
The Antwerp School was a school of artists active in Antwerp, first during the 16th century when the city was the economic center of the Low Countries, and then during the 17th century when it became the artistic stronghold of the Flemish Baroque ...
of landscape painting of the first half of the 17th century. He was strongly influenced by other Antwerp landscape painters, in particular Jan Brueghel the Elder
Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborato ...
, and contemporary Flemish painters such as Alexander Keirincx
Alexander KeirincxAlexander Keirincx
at the
at Sotheby’s website He was also influenced by the late work of Jan Brueghel the Younger to whom his work is sometimes erroneously ascribed.Izaak van Oosten, ''God Creating the Animals of the World''
at Sotheby’s website His landscapes are simple with open spaces and mostly hilly landscapes typically filled with a pond or road and several clusters of trees. There is an overall sense of gentleness and calm in these compositions. An even, gentle light spreads over the entire painting and the trees are untouched by the wind. He appears generally not to have been influenced by the woodland painters with their preference for dense forest scenes. A number of his landscapes have a Mediterranean flavour. There is no evidence that Van Oosten travelled to Italy and his Italianate landscapes must therefore have been inspired by the work of other painters. He regularly returned to the themes of ''The Garden of Eden'' and the ''Creation of the Animals'', themes that were introduced into Flemish landscape art by Jan Brueghel the Elder. These themes allowed him to show off his skills in painting a variety of animal species – mammals, fish and birds, as well as the imaginary unicorns. He often painted on copper, the smooth surface of which allowed him to arrive at his detailed depictions of flora and fauna. As was common practice at the time, he often collaborated with painters who specialized in particular scenic elements.Allegory of the elements Earth and Water
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
Works by van Oosten can be found in the collections of the Uffizi, the
at the
Lucas van Uden
Lucas van Uden (18 October 1595 – 4 November 1672) was a leading Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and engraver, who lived and worked in Antwerp. He was a leading landscape painter who collaborated with various local figure painters. ...
and Jan Wildens.Izaak van Oosten, ''The Garden of Eden''at Sotheby’s website He was also influenced by the late work of Jan Brueghel the Younger to whom his work is sometimes erroneously ascribed.Izaak van Oosten, ''God Creating the Animals of the World''
at Sotheby’s website His landscapes are simple with open spaces and mostly hilly landscapes typically filled with a pond or road and several clusters of trees. There is an overall sense of gentleness and calm in these compositions. An even, gentle light spreads over the entire painting and the trees are untouched by the wind. He appears generally not to have been influenced by the woodland painters with their preference for dense forest scenes. A number of his landscapes have a Mediterranean flavour. There is no evidence that Van Oosten travelled to Italy and his Italianate landscapes must therefore have been inspired by the work of other painters. He regularly returned to the themes of ''The Garden of Eden'' and the ''Creation of the Animals'', themes that were introduced into Flemish landscape art by Jan Brueghel the Elder. These themes allowed him to show off his skills in painting a variety of animal species – mammals, fish and birds, as well as the imaginary unicorns. He often painted on copper, the smooth surface of which allowed him to arrive at his detailed depictions of flora and fauna. As was common practice at the time, he often collaborated with painters who specialized in particular scenic elements.
Willem van Herp
Willem van Herp (I) or Willem van Herp the Elder (variations on first name: 'Guilliam', 'Gilliam' and 'Guillaume') (c. 1614 in Antwerp – 1677) was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in religious paintings and small cabinet paintings of "low ...
is believed to have painted the staffage in many of van Oosten's works. A good example of such collaboration are the two panels on the '' Four Elements'', on which van Oosten collaborated with Pieter van Avont
Pieter van Avont or Peter van Avont, (1600–1652) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker known for his religious scenes and cabinet paintings often including nude children and putti. Van Avont was a frequent collaborator with man ...
for the staffage and possibly Jan van Kessel the Elder
Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) (baptized 5 April 1626, Antwerp – 17 April 1679, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid 17th century. A versatile artist he practised in many genres including studies of i ...
for the animals and still-life elements.at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
Works by van Oosten can be found in the collections of the Uffizi, the Museo del Prado
The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the ...
, the Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...
, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, the Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes
The Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes ( ''Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes'') is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Rennes, the capital of Brittany. Its collections range from ancient Egypt antiquities to the Modern art period and ...
, the Toledo Museum of Art and other museums.
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