Hendrick van Anthonissen (29 May 1605, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 - 12 November 1656, Amsterdam) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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...

 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

Van Anthonissen was the son of Aert Anthonisz (a.k.a. Aart van Antum) and painted in the style of his brother-in-law and teacher Jan Porcellis

Jan Porcellis

Jan Porcellis was a Dutch marine artist.Porcellis was born in Ghent. He was the father of the marine artist Julius Porcellis , and is generally agreed to be the more fluent artist, particularly in his sense of space and his tonal palette...

 and of Jan van Goyen. He is the author of sea paintings in the Hermitage

Hermitage Museum

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, St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 and the Prague Gallery

National Gallery in Prague

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, which through their signatures have been ascribed to a mythical Hendrik van Antem. In the 1630's he lived in The Hague, Leiden, and Leiderdorp, but from 1642 he was back in Amsterdam. He is known for beach scenes and seascapes in the manner of Jan Porcellis, sometimes in grisaille

Grisaille

Grisaille is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome or near-monochrome, usually in shades of grey. It is particularly used in large decorative schemes in imitation of sculpture. Many grisailles in fact include a slightly wider colour range, like the Andrea del Sarto fresco...

. He was the father of the marine painter Arnoldus van Anthonissen

Arnoldus van Anthonissen

Arnoldus van Anthonissen , was a Dutch Golden Age marine painter.-Biography:According to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie he was the son of the marine painter Hendrick van Anthonissen, and the grandson of marine painter Aert Anthonisz a.k.a. Aart van Antum...

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