Adam Pynacker
Adam Christiaensz Pynacker or Pijnacker (15 February 1622, Schiedam - buried 28 March 1673, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of landscapes.
Also recorded as Adam Pijnacker · Adam Pynacher · Adam Pinaker · Adam Pinacre
Adam Pynacker
Wybrand de Geest · Fries Museum, Ottema-Kingma Stichting · Public domain
- Born
- 1620. · Schiedam.
- Died
- 1673. · Amsterdam.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic.
- Occupation
- painter, draftsperson, etcher, printmaker, artist, printer and merchant.
- Fields
- architectural, landscape and Italianization.
- Movements
- Baroque.
- Known for
- Mountainous Landscape with Waterfall, Italian landscape with fortress on the rocks and Boatmen Moored on the Shore of an Italian Lake.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Adam Christiaensz Pynacker or Pijnacker (15 February 1622, Schiedam - buried 28 March 1673, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of landscapes.
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Adam Pynacker (1620–1673) was an artist, draftsperson and etcher, among other activities, of Dutch nationality. The artist was born in Schiedam and died in Amsterdam.
Adam Pynacker worked in Amsterdam, Delft and France, among others. The artist was associated with Baroque.
Among the works are Italian landscape with fortress on the rocks and Mountainous Landscape with Waterfall. The work spans architectural, architectural painting and Italianization, among others. Languages used include Dutch. Works are held at Hatchlands Park, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, among others.
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Biography
Biography
Jan Gabrielsz Sonjé, Adam Pick and Gijsbert Verhoek are recorded as having studied under Adam Pynacker. The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are architectural, landscape and Italianization. Pieter van Laer is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam, Delft and Lenzen (Elbe). Works named in the authority record are Mountainous Landscape with Waterfall, Italian landscape with fortress on the rocks and Boatmen Moored on the Shore of an Italian Lake. Work by Adam Pynacker is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Victoria and Nationalmuseum.
Pynacker was the son of a wine merchant, who was a member of the vroedschap, or city regency. He travelled to Italy and was gone for three years. In 1658 he converted to Catholicism in order to marry Eva Maria de Geest, Wybrand de Geest's daughter. Two years later his portrait was painted by his father-in-law as a pendant to an earlier portrait of his wife. In Schiedam he baptized two children, but from 1661 until he died, he lived on the Rozengracht in Amsterdam.
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Wedding portraits
De Geest was a highly successful portrait painter who painted his daughter in 1652 and two years after their marriage he painted his new son-in-law's portrait in a matching style as pendant:
Life and career
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Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1620
Adam Pynacker was born in 1620 at Schiedam.
1673
Adam Pynacker died in 1673 at Amsterdam.
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Schiedam.
Birth place
Amsterdam.
Death place
Legacy
Pynacker is considered an example of an Italianate landscape painter, along with Jan Both, Jan Baptist Weenix, Nicolaes Berchem and Jan Asselyn. He specialized in decorating whole rooms. According to Houbraken, he would turn in his grave if he knew how the fashions had changed, but the poet P. Verhoek wrote a poem about one of his decorated rooms. Pijnacker's "Deer Hunt," which had been looted from Belgium, turned up on the Russian art market in 2009.
Südliche Landschaft, 1654-59, Adam Pynacker.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q979137: Adam Pynacker
Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
- “Adam Pynacker”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1091445508, Golden Harvest: Paintings by Adam Pynacker (1994 : Williamstown, MA etc.).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- 1.Usually "Pijnacker" in Dutch sources, but still "Pynacker" in English ones. For example "Adam Pynacker" is the "preferred" spelling of Getty Union, is used by the National Gallery in Washington http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/tsearch?oldartistid=25650&imageset=1 , the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdirect/4317.html & the Courtauld in London etc.
- 2.Pijnacker, Adam at the RKD databases
- 3.Adam Pynaker biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- 4.Looted art from Belgium turns up in a Russian museum. lootedart.com.
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authority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 1091445508, Golden Harvest: Paintings by Adam Pynacker (1994 : Williamstown, MA etc.).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q979137: Adam PynackerWikimedia Foundation
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