Egbert I Van Heemskerck (1610 - 1680), View Of A Classroom

Egbert I van Heemskerck
Dutch painter
Haarlem 1610 - 1680 London
View of a classroom
Oil on canvas: 44.4 x 48.8 cm
Signed and dated lower center "Hkerk / 1665"
Frame: 60.8 x 65.7 cm

Painter of genre scenes, especially humorous low-life scenes, most typically depicting peasants in tavern interiors, often in comic or sometimes even vulgar situations. Egbert I is also known for his representations of Quaker meetings and of school classrooms.

Our painter was active in Haarlem from 1646 until 1663. He planned to travel to Italy in 1655, but it is not known if he went or not. In 1663 he worked in The Hague, in 1665, that is the year that Egbert painted our classroom, in Amsterdam, in 1667 in Weesp. Around the middle of the 1670s he left with his family to England. He lived in London and Oxford between 1680/85 and his death in 1704.

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