Johannes Glauber (1646,
Utrecht (city)
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– c. 1726,
Schoonhoven
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), was a
Dutch Golden Age
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painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken he became a painter against the wishes of his father, the chemist
Johann Rudolph Glauber
Johann Rudolf Glauber (10 March 1604 – 16 March 1670) was a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Some historians of science have described him as one of the first chemical engineers. His discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 led to the com ...
(1604–1670), and became a pupil of
Nicolaes Berchem
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''on his own'', living with
Gerrit van Uylenburgh
Gerrit van Uylenburgh (c. 1625 – 1679), or Gerrit Uylenburgh, was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art-dealer. He was the eldest son of Hendrick van Uylenburgh and took over the family art-dealing business after Hendrick's death and burial i ...
and working on copies of Italianate landscapes for a growing market of connoisseurs in Amsterdam.
[Johannes Glauber Biography]
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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After the death of his father, he travelled with his brother
Johannes Gottlieb Glauber and the two ''brothers Van Doren'' by boat to Paris, where he stayed a year painting for Mr. Picart, an art dealer on the Pont Neuf who was a flower painter from the
Low Countries
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. Then he travelled to Lyon, where he stayed for two years painting for
Adriaen van der Kabel. He then travelled to Italy with his brother and two French painters. After 6 months in Rome he joined the
Bentvueghels
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Activities
The members, which included ...
with the nickname ''Coridon'', but since he knew that name had already been given to Van der Cabel, they changed it to ''Polidoor'' (after the landscape painter
Polidoro da Caravaggio
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).
He was friends with
Karel Dujardin
Karel Dujardin (September 27, 1626November 20, 1678) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasan ...
in Rome, who didn't want to join the Bentvueghels, but who received the somewhat negative nickname ''Bokkebaard'' (goatee) anyway. According to Houbraken another painter who didn't want to become a member after receiving an invitation received the epithet ''Platluizenbaard'' or lice-beard.
After 2 years in Rome he set off for Padua with his brother and the Flemish painter
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, where they stayed a year. After that they travelled to Venice, where they stayed two years. They finally left Italy in 1679 and went north to
Hamburg
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, where they lived until 1684 except for a short stay in Copenhagen when Johannes went to work for
Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig
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on decorations fot
Charlottenborg Palace
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.
After 1684 Johannes left his brother to return to Amsterdam, where he lived with
Gerard de Lairesse
Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (11 September 1641 – June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and Fr ...
and made wall decorations for various large homes and estates, including
Soestdijk Palace
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, where he was assisted by
Albert Meijeringh and
Dirk Maas
Dirk Maas (12 September 1659 – 25 December 1717), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
Maas was born and died in Haarlem. According to Houbraken he was first a pupil of Hendrick Mommers, a Haarlem painter of vegetable market ...
.
Houbraken also mentions the house of Jacob de Flines on
Herengracht
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Th ...
132, which Glauber helped decorate along with De Lairesse and
Frederick de Moucheron
Frederik de Moucheron (1633 – 5 January 1686) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter and draughtsman. He mainly produced (Italianate) landscapes that were furnished with human and animal figures by various colleagues.
Biography
Frederi ...
. That house burned in 2008, but the wall paintings had been removed in 1910 and are located today in
Beeckestijn
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. A ceiling decoration that Glauber made for Herengracht 446,
Huis van der Graeff (home of
Andries de Graeff
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) was sold at auction in 1903 and is installed today at the
Peace Palace
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in the Hague.
Amsterdam archives
/ref> Houbraken also mentioned decorations for gentlemen in Rotterdam 'in the style of De Lairesse'. Glauber married the sister of the architect Steven Vennecool and at the time Houbraken was writing, he lived in the ''Proveniershuis'' in Schoonhoven
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The former municipa ...
.
According to the RKD Glauber was the brother of the painter Diana Glauber and settled in the Hague, where he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura
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The guild of St. Luke in the Hague existed a ...
in 1687.[Johannes Glauber]
in the RKD
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He was the teacher of the painter Willem Troost.
References
Pastoral landscape with figures
one of a series in the Rijksmuseum
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from Herengracht 132 by Glauber and De Lairesse
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1646 births
1726 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Artists from Utrecht
Painters from The Hague
Members of the Bentvueghels