Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder (circa 1635-1704), Artist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Painter; b. Haarlem; in Amsterdam, The Hague and Haarlem 1661-69; probably came to England in the early 1670s, Vertue noticing a picture by him at Wootton in 1674; d. London; according to Buckeridge his ‘gross and comical genius’ succeeded for a long while in England among ‘waggish collectors’, but he fell short of his predecessors Brouwer and Teniers ‘in the study of the sots paradice’. There is some confusion of his work with that of his son, Egbert van Heemskerck the younger (c.1676-1744).
This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.