Egbert van Drielst began his study of the painting in a factory in Groningen which produced mainly lacquered objects. He soon went to Haarlem

Haarlem

Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...

, where he became an apprentice in the wallpaper

Wallpaper

Wallpaper is a kind of material used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. It is usually sold in rolls and is put onto a wall using wallpaper paste...

 factory of Jan Augustini

Jan Augustini

Jan Augustini , was an 18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands.-Biography:According to the RKD he was a landscape painter who made large wall decorations, many of which are still installed in the buildings for which they were designed. He was a pupil of Philip van Dijk in the Hague...

. Van Drielst entered the wallpaper studio in Amsterdam where he established friendships with Adriaan de Lelie

Adriaan de Lelie

Adriaan de Lelie was born at Tilburg in 1755, and was a scholar of Peeters, a painter of tapestries and ornaments, and afterwards of Quertenmont at Antwerp. He made copies of many of the portraits by Rubens and Van Dyck at Düsseldorf, and also of historical pictures by Italian and Dutch masters...

. He studied the old masters Salomon van Ruisdael

Salomon van Ruisdael

Salomon van Ruysdael was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.-Biography:...

, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Wijnants

Jan Wijnants

Jan Jansz Wijnants was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:He was born in Haarlem, the son of a Catholic art dealer also named Jan Wijnants...

 and in particular, Meindert Hobbema

Meindert Hobbema

Meindert Hobbema , was a landscape painter of the Dutch school.-Life:The facts of his life are somewhat obscure. His chronology and signed pictures substantially contradict each other...

, and sought to make use of their techniques in his nature studies. In 1768 he became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke

Guild of Saint Luke

The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was identified by John of Damascus as having painted the...

 in Amsterdam.

He often portrayed nature scenes of the Drenthe

Drenthe

Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands, located in the north-east of the country. The capital city is Assen. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and Germany to the east.-History:Drenthe, unlike many other parts of the Netherlands, has been a...

, in the north-east of the Netherlands. In 1790 he married a girl from Hoogeveen

Hoogeveen

Hoogeveen is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands.- Population centres :Elim, Fluitenberg, Hoogeveen and Noordscheschut, which still have the canals which used to be throughout the town...

. He traveled there each year to produce drawings, and is sometimes called the "Drentse Hobbema". His wallpaper, usually with the horizon

Horizon

The horizon is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth's surface, and those that do not. At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc., and the resulting...

 on eye height, can be seen in Elswout

Elswout

Elswout is a historical buitenplaats dating from the 19th century in a park by the same name in Haarlem, Netherlands.-History:The Elswout site was a buitenplaats for a long time before the current construction began. The original house was barely finished in 1635 before being sold to Gabriel...

, near Haarlem and in the Rijksmuseum Twenthe

Rijksmuseum Twenthe

The Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, the Netherlands, was founded in 1927 by textile industry Baron Jan Bernard Van Heek. He donated his own private collection and the museum building to the government, thus making it a national museum....

.

Source

• Gerlagh, B & E. Koolhaas-Grosfeld (1995) Egbert van Drielst 1745-1818
• Mandle, E.R (1971) Dutch Masterpieces from the eighteenth century. Paintings & Drawings 1700 - 1800

External links

Website on the wallpaper in the Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen Huis

• Codart on Adriaan de Lelie and Egbert van Drielst