Meindert hobbema biography of michaels
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A Watermill
Meindert Hobbemac. 1662–1668
Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 62 cm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Meyndert HOBBEMA
Amstedam 1638—Amsterdam 1709
Meyndert Hobbema was born in 1638 in Amsterdam. He adopted the name Hobbema as a young man, though it does not appear to have been used by his father. He was a pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael, who testified in 1660 that Hobbema served and learned with the for a few years. Though he learned from the example of other landscape artists, Hobbema was very close to his master for several years, even on one occasion basing a painting on an etching by Ruisdael. By the time he was twenty-five, Hobbema was at the height of his powers and the rival of his master. Though he never achieved the range or profundity of Ruisdael, he was a much more fluent painter and his sparkling, tightly wrought, and well-wooded landscapes, though repetitious, are approaching perfection. Then, in 1668, his thirtieth year, he married the kitchen-maid of an A
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Meindert Hobbema
Dutch artist (c. 1638–1709)
Meindert Lubbertszoon Hobbema (bapt. 31 October 1638 – 7 December 1709) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of landscapes, specializing in views of woodland, although his most famous painting, The Avenue at Middelharnis (1689, National Gallery, London), shows a different type of scene.
Hobbema was a pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael, the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and in his mature period produced paintings developing one aspect of his master's more varied output, specializing in "sunny forest scenes opened by roads and glistening ponds, fairly flat landscapes with scattered tree groups, and water mills", including over 30 of the last in paintings.[1]
The majority of his mature works come from the 1660s; after he married and took a job as an exciseman in 1668 he painted less, and after 1689 apparently not at all. He was not very well known in his lifetime or for nearly a century after his
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Meindert Hobbema was born in Amsterdam and never left the city except for brief sketching trips in the surrounding countryside. Hobbema was both pupil and friend of Jacob van Ryusdael as long as the master lived in Amsterdam. Hobbema specialized in landscape painting during a short career that ended abruptly in 1689 when, the year after his marriage to the Burgomaster's cook, he painted his gods picture. The good offices of the Burgomaster secured him a civil service position as wijnroeir, a minor customs official whose endless duty it was to gauge the amount of wine in utländsk casks according to Dutch measure. Although this position assured him a steady salary and was more lucrative than the sale of paintings, Hobbema died a fattig in 1709, leaving behind work that ranks him with Ruysdael as one of the greatest of the seventeenth-century Dutch landscape artists.
Hobbema's paintings may be distinguished from those of Ruysda