Aert Anthonisz, also known as Aart van Antum (1580 - 7 September 1620 (buried)) was a Dutch marine-painter

Marine art

Marine art or maritime art is any form of figurative art that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries...

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Biography

Until 1973 this painter was known as Aart van Antum, after his early signatures were interpreted as "Aert Antum". Later research showed his signature to be "AERT ANT(...)"; whereby the last letters are sometimes included in varying degrees of completion. One reason so little is known of him, is that his life and work were overlooked or omitted by early 17th and 18th century painter biographers such as Arnold Houbraken

Arnold Houbraken

Arnold Houbraken was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. He had ten children. His son Jacobus Houbraken was an engraver of portraits and book illustrations, including books by his father...

. Anthonisz was born at Antwerp. His parents moved the family in 1591 to Amsterdam. He was possibly a pupil of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom was a Dutch Golden Age painter credited with being the founder of Dutch marine art or seascape painting. Beginning with the "birds-eye" viewpoint of earlier Netherlandish marine art, his later works show a view from lower down, and more realistic depiction of the seas...

. In 1603 he signed a paper in Amsterdam that he was 23 years old and had lived there for 12 years, when he married Baycken Coutermans from Mechelin. She in turn was given power of attorney by him to settle an inheritance in Mechelin in 1614. He was buried in the Zuiderkerk of Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

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Anthonisz was the father of the marine painter Hendrick van Anthonissen

Hendrick van Anthonissen

Hendrick van Anthonissen was a Dutch marine painter.-Biography:Van Anthonissen was the son of Aert Anthonisz and painted in the style of his brother-in-law and teacher Jan Porcellis and of Jan van Goyen. He is the author of sea paintings in the Hermitage, St...

. A seapiece by him, signed A. A., is in the Berlin Museum

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The Gemäldegalerie is an art museum in Berlin, Germany. It holds one of the world's leading collections of European art from the 13th to the 18th centuries. It is located on Kulturforum west of Potsdamer Platz. Its collection includes masterpieces from such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas...

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