Caesar van Everdingen
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Cesar Pietersz, or Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (1616/17 – buried 13 October 1678), older brother of Allart van Everdingen and Jan van Everdingen, was a Dutch Golden Age portrait and history painter.
Biography
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File:Everdingen - Rape of Europa.jpg
File:Jupiter and Callisto (Cesar Boetius van Everdingen) - Nationalmuseum - 18160.tif
He was born in Alkmaar and educated in Utrecht, where he learned to paint from Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0226.htm Cesar van Everdingen Biography] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/26852 Cesar Boetius van Everdingen] in the RKD Caesar became a member of the painter's guild in Alkmaar in 1632. His first known painting dates from 1636. In 1648 he moved to Haarlem, where he joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke and the civic guard (or schutterij) there, where he met Jacob van Campen. From 1648 to 1650 He helped him with the decoration of the Oranje Zaal (Orange room) in Huis ten Bosch. In 1658 he moved back to Alkmaar where he started a workshop and took on pupils. He died and was buried in the Grote- or St. Laurenskerk in Alkmaar.
Works
Many of his pictures are to be seen in the museums and private houses of the Netherlands, with several on display at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. His pupils were Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, Adriaen Dekker, Hendrik Graauw, and Thomas Heeremans. Houbraken also lists two other pupils; Adriaen Warmenhuizen, and Laurens Oosthoorn. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid owns a Vertumnus and Pomona {{Circa|1637–1640}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/everdingen-caesar-van/vertumnus-and-pomona|title=Vertumnus and Pomona|website=Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza|language=en|access-date=2020-03-26}}
Gallery
File:Everdingen, Caesar van - Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus - c. 1650.jpg|Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus
File:WollebrantGeleynssendeJongh.jpg|Wollebrand Geleynssen de Jongh
File:Meisje met brede hoed door Caesar van Everdingen.jpg|Girl in a Large Hat
File:Caesar van Everdingen - Joueuse de Cistre.jpg|Joueuse de cistre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
File:Caesar van everdingen-vertumno y pomona-thyssen.jpg|Vertumnus and Pomona, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.
References
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External links
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- [http://www.artnet.com/artist/668285/cesar-boetius-van-everdingen.html Caesar van Everdingen] on Artnet
- [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/everdingen_cesar_van.html Cesar van Everdingen at Artcyclopedia]
- [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/e/everding/caesar/biograph.html Biography at Web Gallery of Art]
- [http://www.pubhist.com/person/1656/cesar-van-everdingen Works and literature] at PubHist
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Category:Dutch Golden Age painters
Category:Painters from Alkmaar