Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst
{{short description|Dutch painter}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst
| image = Jan Bronchorst.jpg
| caption = 'Jean van Bronchorst by Pieter Bailliu after a selfportrait, published in Cornelis de Bie's Gulden Cabinet in 1662.
| birth_name = Jan Gerritsz
| birth_date = 1603
| birth_place = Utrecht
| death_date = {{death year and age|1661|1603}}
| death_place = Amsterdam
| nationality = Dutch
| field = Painting
| movement = Baroque
| website =
}}
Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst (also Bronchorst or Bronkhorst; 1603–1661) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. He is considered today to be a minor member of the Utrecht Caravaggisti.
Biography
According to Arnold Houbraken, van Bronckhorst apprenticed as an eleven-year-old with the glass engraver Verburgh in Utrecht. He worked with him for 6 months and worked with two other Utrecht glassworkers before embarking on a Grand Tour in 1620. He did not get far before he was offered work in Arras by the glassworker Peeter Matthys. After six months, he continued to Paris in 1620, where he worked with the glassworker Chamu. He returned to Utrecht in 1622, where Cornelis Poelenburg taught him to paint.[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0115.htm Jan van Bronkhorst biography] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature He married Catalijntje van Noort in 1626. He frequented the studio of Gerard van Honthorst. In 1647 he moved to Amsterdam where he created the stained glass windows and the organ doors (almost the only area in a Calvinist church where figurative painting was sometimes allowed) of the Nieuwe Kerk (finished in 1655). He has been described as the last of the great stained glass painters in Holland.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}{{clarify|date=November 2015}} Unlike his work for churches, his secular paintings show the influence of Caravaggio, and also show a striking appeal to sensuality.{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.hu/html/b/bronchor/sl_nymph.html|title=Web Gallery of Art has been moved to a new address!|work=wga.hu}} Among his pupils are counted his sons Jan Jansz and Gerrit Jansz, and Cesar van Everdingen.{{cite web|url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/12924|title=Home Jan Gerritsz. van Bronckhorst|work=rkd.nl}}
Image:Bronckhorst, Jan Gerritsz. van (1603-1661) - Muzikaal gezelschap aan een balustrade.jpg|Musical Company at a Balustrade
File:Jan G. van Bronckhorst The procuress.jpg|The procuress, 1636–1638, Brukenthal National Museum
File:Jan Gerrit van Bronchorst - Young man playing a theorbo (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza).jpg|Young man playing a theorbo, 1642–1645, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
References
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Sources
- De Bie, Cornelis, biography of [https://books.google.com/books?id=3pFbAAAAQAAJ&q=278 Jan Bronckhorst] in Het Gulden Cabinet, 1662, p 278, on Google Books
- {{cite book | first= Filippo|last= Baldinucci| year=1728| title= Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali| pages= 379 | publisher= Stamperia S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi (Googlebooks entry)| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=zVQGAAAAQAAJ&q=baldinucci&pg=PA1 }}
- [http://www.wga.hu/html/b/bronchor/index.html Web Gallery of Art biography]
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/jan%20gerritsz%20van-bronckhorst/ Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst] on Artnet
External links
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- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/65202/rec/17 Vermeer and The Delft School], a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst
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Category:Painters from Utrecht (city)
Category:Dutch Golden Age painters