Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten
{{short description|Dutch painter}}
Image:Battle of Scheveningen (Slag bij Ter Heijde)(Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten).jpg, 10 August 1653 by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, painted c. 1654, depicts the final battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War (National Maritime Museum)]]
Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten or Johannes (Beerstrat or Bierstraten) (bapt. 1 March 1622 in Amsterdam – buried 1 July 1666) was a Dutch painter of marine art, particularly of events of the First Anglo-Dutch War and Dutch-Swedish War. Van Beerstraten depicted ports (Civitavecchia) and cityscapes of Amsterdam, as well as many cities and villages in the Netherlands.{{cite book|title=Künstler-Inventare|first=Abraham|last=Bredius|author-link=Abraham Bredius|volume=4|page=1301|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|date=November 1917|location=The Hague|url=https://resources.warburg.sas.ac.uk/pdf/cdh150k85b2430606D.pdf|access-date=2024-09-06|via=resources.warburg.sas.ac.uk}} He captured castles, churches and other buildings that no longer exist.{{cite web | url=https://www.stydiai.ru/gallery/jan-abrahamsz-van-beerstraten/ | title=ван Беерстратен, Ян Авраам(Jan Abrahamsz van Beerstraten) | Студия И }}
Biography
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Jan Abrahamsz, painter, was the son of Abraham Danielsz., a table clothmaker from Emden.{{cite web | url=https://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/827 | title=Jan Abrahamsz. (Van) Beerstraten I & II, alias: Johannes / Joannes Beerstraten }} He married on 30 August 1642, living at Elandstraat in the Jordaan. From this marriage twelve children were born.Abraham (1643-1666), Jacobeus (1644-), Antonie (1646-1652 or 1665), Sara (1648), Daniel (Utrecht, 1650), Johannes (1652-1667), Cornelia (1655), Maria (1656), Jacobus (1658-1711), Magdalena (1660-1666), Daniel (1661-1718) and Maria (1664). In 1651 he bought a new house at Rozengracht (174) opposite a labyrinth.Kwijtscheldingen, archiefnummer 5062, inventarisnummer 44{{cite web | url=http://www.amsterdamhistorie.nl/jordaan/kannegieter/hoofdstuk8-2.html | title=Lijst van gangnamen op het nieuwe werk }} [https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/molh003nieu07_01/molh003nieu07_01_0173.php DBNL] In 1652 he watched the fire of the old townhall and produced one of his best works. In 1658 Rembrandt, Hendrickje Stoffels and Titus van Rijn became neighbors. In 1662, together with his eldest son, he traveled to Friesland, Groningen and many other places in Holland. In 1664 his wife died after a delivery and three children likely because of the plague.[https://www.kamperalmanak.nl/downloads/almanak1957/almanak1957_10_beerstraaten.pdf Fehrmann, C.N (1957) Kamper Almanak, p. 247-248]
In May 1665 he remarried in the church at Sloterdijk. On 1 July 1666 Van Beerstraten was buried in Westerkerk;[https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/scans/5004/2.6.1/start/30/limit/10/highlight/10 GAA 5004-25, f. 39.] his widow died three weeks later after a delivery. Four children were taken to the orphanage; the youngest sons survived, one was a school teacher and the other a carpenter.W.F.H. OLDEWELT (1938) DE SCHILDER JOHANNES ABRAHAMS BEERSTRATEN EN ZIJN NAASTE FAMILIELEDEN. In: Jaarboek Amstelodamum[https://www.kamperalmanak.nl/downloads/almanak1957/almanak1957_10_beerstraaten.pdf C.N. Fehrmann (1957) Kamper Almanak, p. 246-254]
Van Beerstraten was a pupil of Pieter Cornelisz van Soest; he owned a painting by Wouwerman, Pieter de Hoogh and Jan van der Heyden, and kept a large collection of books in his attic according to his inventory.Bredius, Abraham [Bearb.] Künstlerinventare: Urkunden zur Geschichte der holländischen Kunst des XVIten, XVIIten und XVIIIten Jahrhunderts (Band 3) — Haag, 1917
There is some confusion about the identity of four landscape painters named Beerstraaten; Johannis, this Jan Abrahamsz, Abraham, Johannes and Anthonie.Most, G. van der (2002) Jan Abrahamsz., Abraham, Anthonie Beerstraten, kunstschilders uit de zeventiende eeuw, met een kunsthistorische bijdrage van E. Bartels, p. 20.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/5892 Abraham Beerstraaten] in the RKD{{cite web | url=https://onh.nl/verhaal/beerstraten-wie-schilderde-wat | title=Beerstraten: Wie schilderde wat? }} Currently, the RKD records Jan and Johannis as the same person, and Abraham Beerstraaten, who specialized in winterscapes, is considered to be his oldest son.[https://www.kamperalmanak.nl/downloads/almanak1957/almanak1957_10_beerstraaten.pdf Fehrmann, C.N (1957) Kamper Almanak, p. 246-254] Abraham Storck who cooperated with his son, inherited his unfinished paintings.Menno Jonker (2021) Abraham Beerstraaten en Abraham Storck, Oude Stadhuis te Amsterdam, ca. 1663-1667 [https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2734851/173585_09_Schildersbiografie_n.pdf Jager, A. (2016). 'Galey-schilders' en 'dosijnwerck': De productie, distributie en consumptie van goedkope historiestukken in zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam]
Selected works
- [http://eguarwr.ru/index/the_state_hermitage_museum_abraham_beerstraten/0-11467 Winter View of Leyden], 1660 – Hermitage Museum
- [http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/european_paintings/skating_at_slooten_near_amsterdam/objectView.aspx?&OID=110000066&collID=11&vw=0 Skating at Slooten, near Amsterdam] – Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Winter Landscape, 1655 – J. Paul Getty Museum
- [http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=25782 Imaginary view of a port,] with the façade of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, also known as The Old Port of Genes – Louvre
- [http://www.culturalheritage.cc/engine?app=md&service=classmanager:1148&1159=9863&cmd=open&id=771&replaced=true Port] – National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade
- [http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=8275 Imaginary view of a port] with the chevet of Lyon Cathedral – Louvre
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070224100213/http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true View of the Yacht of the Princes of Orange and Other Ships] – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- The Castle of Muiden in Winter – National Gallery, London
- 5 works now at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- [https://friesscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/detail/fsm-col1-dat1000018455 J.A. Beerstraten (1622-1666) - Schilderij, gezicht op de Martinikerk te Sneek]
- [http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/da7419f0.html Sailing man-of-war] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211125/http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/da7419f0.html |date=2016-03-03 }} (watercolour on paper) – Courtauld Gallery
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110608071828/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=BHC0811 A Dutch Flagship and a Fluyt Running into a Mediterranean Harbour] – National Maritime Museum
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110608071904/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=BHC0278 The Battle of Scheveningen] – National Maritime Museum
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File:J.A. Beerstraaten The Paalhuis and the Nieuwe Brug.jpg|The Paalhuis and the Nieuwe Brug (Rijksmuseum)
File:Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten (Amsterdam 1622-1666) - A winter landscape with activities on the ice near Castle Buren.jpg|A winter landscape with activities on the ice near Castle Buren
File:JA Beerstraten - Bavokerk na uitbreiding Salomon de Bray 1659.jpg|Bavokerk na uitbreiding door Salomon de Bray 1659
File:Capriccio met antieke triomfboog, RP-T-1883-A-274.jpg|Capriccio met antieke triomfboog
References
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External links
- [https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/5894 Beerstraaten, Jan Abrahamsz] at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
- http://www.artnet.com/artist/2224/jan-abrahamsz-beerstraten.html
- [https://tertiusmasterpaintings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JAN-ABRAHAMSZ-BEERSTRATEN-COMPLETE-INFO-Incl.-UV_IR_Frame.pdf Jan Beerstraten by Tertius Gallery]
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