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Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722) Gloucester Museums Service Art Collection. (b Kralingen, nr. Rotterdam, 21 Jan. 1659; d Rotterdam, 12 Nov. 1722). Dutch painter of religious and mythological scenes and portraits, active mainly in Rotterdam.
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Adriaen van der Werff 1659–1722 (b Kralingen, nr. Rotterdam,...
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Adriaen van der Werff (21 January 1659 – 12 November 1722) was a Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. He painted several works for the Medicis. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant.
In 1696 the Elector Palatine, passing through Rotterdam, admired Van der Werff's work and commissioned him to paint a Judgement of Solomon and also his portrait for the Duke of Tuscany. The artist took the completed works to Düsseldorf and enjoyed great success there.
Pieter van der Werff was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He assisted his older brother, Adriaen van der Werff. He learned to paint from his brother Adriaen and according to the RKD, he spent most of his life working in Rotterdam, where he painted the rich and famous.
This highly polished decorative painting with its elaborately posed figures represents Court taste at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was bought for a large sum by the Duc d'Orléans,...
Adriaen van der Werff, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1706. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
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We don’t know who, if anyone, commissioned the picture, it was painted quite early in Adriaen van der Werff’s career. Later, when he had found success, he became court painter to the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm in Düsseldorf, and was created a knight in 1703.
