Arnold Boonen

The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Works named in the authority record are Portrait Brechje Hooft (1640-1721). Work by Arnold Boonen is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Amsterdam Museum, Rijksmuseum and Frans Hals Museum.

He was born at Dordrecht, in the Dutch Republic in 1669. He was a pupil first of Arnold Verbuis, and then of Godefried Schalken. He painted genre pictures in the style of the latter, representing subjects by candlelight. However, due to much encouragement in portrait painting, he shifted almost entirely to that branch of art. His style was well adapted to succeed in it. An excellent colourist, a faithful designer of his model, and highly skilled, he was soon distinguished as one of the ablest artists of his day. He painted a great number of portraits of the most distinguished people of his time, among whom were Peter the Great, the Elector of Mentz, the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Prince and Princess of Orange, the great Duke of Marlborough, and several others. He created large paintings for different company halls in Amsterdam and Dordrecht. He died in 1729. The Dresden Gallery has seven works by him, and the Woman Singing in the Lille Gallery is also attributed to him. His son, Kasper van Boonen, also painted portraits, but in no way proved himself equal to his father.

• Illustration — Portrait of Jan van Huysum, c. 1720 • Illustration — Merchant in his office, before 1729 • Illustration — Detail of a painting with (left) Agatha Levina Geelvinck (1701-1761), c. 1705 • Illustration — A young boy holding a tambourine, c. 1729 • Illustration — Family portrait of 3 children of the van der Elst family • Illustration — Regents of the Burgerweeshuis (municipal orphanage) in Amsterdam, 1716 • Illustration — Daniël Deutz by Arnold Boonen • Illustration — Portrait of Pieter van de Poel, 1700

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