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Van der Werff was highly successful in his own lifetime, and his patrons included the Elector Palatine of the Rhine at Düsseldorf and the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, who bought The Judgement of Paris in 1719 for an enormous sum.
Adriaen van der Werff began his career as a genre painter (scenes of everyday life). However, he changed direction after studying prints after Italian artists such as Raphael and admiring the work of Gerard Lairesse in Amsterdam.
At the age of seventeen, he founded his own studio in Rotterdam where he later became the head of guild of Saint Luc. In 1696, he was paid a visit by Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine and his wife, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici.
Rotterdam, 21 Jan. 1659; d Rotterdam, 12 Nov. 1722). Dutch painter of religious and mythological scenes and portraits, active mainly in Rotterdam. He combined the precise finish of the Leiden tradition (learned from his master Eglon van der Neer) with the classical standards of the French Académie Royale and became the most famous Dutch ...
Oct 17, 2018 · Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was apprenticed to the portrait painter Cornelis Picolet (1626–79) from 1668 to 1670 and then from ca.1671 to 1676 to Eglon van der Neer in Rotterdam. From 1676 van der Werff produced small portraits and genre paintings as an independent master.
Born in Rotterdam, Van der Werff first studied under Cornelis Pecolet and later under Eglon van der Neer, and established himself at the age of seventeen as a painter of historical subjects. His acquaintance with the art enthusiast Flink gave him the opportunity to work on a fine collection of drawings by the old masters.
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She is dressed in the simple, low-necked garment of a peasant woman of the early eighteenth century. Van Der Werff has pushed her back into the shadows, and what little light there is emanates from the infant Christ – he is to become the ‘light of the world’ (John 8: 12).
