Gerbrand van den Eeckhout worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Gerbrand van den Eeckhout as Dutch painter (1621-1674).
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout was born at Amsterdam in 1621. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, etcher and engraver.
His recorded movement is baroque.
Among his best-known works are Christ and the Woman of Samaria at the Well, Isaac and Rebecca and Christus and the woman in adultery. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout died in 1674, aged 53. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Christ and the Woman of Samaria at the Well
- Notable work: Isaac and Rebecca
- Notable work: Christus and the woman in adultery
- Movement: Baroque
