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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.
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 was born near Rotterdam, and taught there by Cornelis Picolet and Eglon Hendrik van der Neer. He worked in Rotterdam, where he died. From 1697 he was also court painter of the Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf. He was a genre, figure and portrait painter.
Pieter was the younger brother of “the renowned throughout Europe and world famous” painter Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722). 1 The family belonged to Kralingen’s upper middle class, and Pieter’s father served several terms as an alderman. 2 Pieter studied under his brother, who was six years older, as a matter of course, and Adriaen’s internat...
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Pieter van der Werff (1665 – 26 September 1722) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He assisted his older brother, Adriaen van der Werff. Life. 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. [1] .
