Dordrechts Museum
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Dordrechts Museum is an art museum in Dordrecht
Dordrecht
Dordrecht , colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the fourth largest city of the province, having a population of 118,601 in 2009...

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The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. The museum was founded in 1842 and has a collection of artists of the last 400 years.

Paintings

The museum has paintings of the following artists:
  • Ferdinand Bol
    Ferdinand Bol
    Ferdinand Bol was a Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and single figures in exotic finery.The street Ferdinand Bolstraat in Amsterdam was...

  • Aelbert Cuyp
    Aelbert Cuyp
    Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz...

  • Adam Willaerts
    Adam Willaerts
    Adam Willaerts was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:Willaerts was born in London to Flemish parents who had fled from Antwerp for religious reasons. By 1585 the family lived in Leiden. From 1597 until his death, Adam lived in Utrecht, where he became a member of the Guild of St...

  • Samuel van Hoogstraten
  • Adriaen Coorte
    Adriaen Coorte
    Adriaen Coorte was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, who signed works between 1683 and 1707. He painted small and unpretentious still lifes in a style more typical of the first half of the century, and was "one of the last practitioners of this intimate category".-Biography:Very little is...

  • Aert Schouman
    Aert Schouman
    Aert Schouman or Aart Schouman , was a prolific and versatile Dutch painter, glass engraver, printmaker, collector and dealer, who produced still lifes, biblical and mythological themes, natural history studies, genre, historical works, portraits, sketches, etchings and mezzotints...

  • Jacob van Strij
  • Abraham van Strij
  • Ary Scheffer
    Ary Scheffer
    Ary Scheffer , French painter of Dutch and German extraction, was born in Dordrecht.-Life:After the early death of his father Johann Baptist, a poor painter, Ary's mother Cornelia, herself a painter and daughter of landscapist Arie Lamme, took him to Paris and placed him in the studio of...

  • Paul Gabriël
    Paul Gabriël
    Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, and etcher who belonged to the Hague School....

  • Johan Barthold Jongkind
  • Jan Toorop
    Jan Toorop
    Jean Theodoor Toorop , better known as Jan Toorop, was an Indo painter, whose works straddle the space between the Symbolist painters and Art Nouveau.-Biography:...

  • Jan Veth
    Jan Veth
    Jan Pieter Veth , was a Dutch painter, poet, art critic and university lecturer.Jan Veth was the son of Gerradus Huibert Veth, a Dordrecht iron merchant and liberal politician, and Anna Cornelia Giltay. On his mother's side he descended from the Dordrecht painter family of Van Strij...

  • Jan Sluijters
  • JCJ Vanderheyden
  • Pyke Koch
    Pyke Koch
    Pyke Koch was a Dutch artist who painted in a magic realist style.He was born in Beek. He exhibited in the 25th Venice Biennale in 1950. His work was shown in a retrospective exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem in 1966, and in a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1972. He...

  • Piet Ouborg
  • Robert Zandvliet

  • External links

    Dordrechts Museum, official website
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