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Jacob Ochtervelt

Jacob Ochtervelt (1634 - 1682) was active/lived in Netherlands, Holland.  Jacob Ochtervelt is known for Golden Age of Holland figure and genre painting.

Jacob Ochtervelt (1634 in Rotterdam – 1682 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter whose contemporaries included Vermeer, Ter Borch, and De Hooch. Despite his prolific work, he was ignored by the three major 17th century art bibliographers, Andre Felibien, Jochaim Sandrart, and R. de Piles.

He was first mentioned by Arnold Houbraken, a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters, who wrote that "Jakob Ugtervelt was a pupil of N. Berchem during the same period as "Pieter de Hooge" (Hooch), who was famed for his interior conversation pieces with lords and ladies, but without much perspective in his backgrounds, which takes a certain amount of mathematical insight and skill."

The way this comment was written leaves the reader questioning whether Houbraken thought Hooch or Ochtervelt painted perspective poorly. According to Abraham Jacob van der Aa's later biography of him, Ochtervelt's style was more in keeping with Gerard Terburg or Gabriel Metzu, and in addition t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1453 characters.]  Artist bio

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