Adriaen van Eemont (1626 – 10 September 1662) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Van Eemont was born and died in Dordrecht. According to Houbraken he was "as good a bird painter as Melchior d'Hondecoeter.[1] Houbraken had mentioned him twice earlier; as a specialist in painting water birds and plants, and as the teacher of the Dordrecht painter Johannes Offermans.[2][3]
According to the RKD he is known for fruit still lifes and is possibly the same person as the landscape painter who signed with the monogram "AVE".[4] He worked in Amsterdam, Heusden and France.[4] In France he traveled with Frederik de Moucheron to Paris and Lyon.[4]
There is still some uncertainty about the nature of his work; though Houbraken was so certain that he had specialized in birds and plants, the Dordrechts Museum has a work by him that is more reminiscent of Haarlem works such as those by Adriaen van Ostade.[4][5]
Confusion with Nicolaes Ficke
His monogram "AVE" has also been interpreted as "NF" for Nicolaes Ficke, a 17th-century painter from Haarlem. The group of monogrammed paintings thus identified are considered to be paintings in the "Haarlem landscape style". An example of such a painting that was formerly attributed to Jan Wijnants is The Halt at the Cottage.
The Halt at the Cottage, Philadelphia Museum of Art
References
- ↑ (in Dutch) Adriaan van Emont Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ↑ Eemont in Houbraken's Roelant Savry biography
- ↑ Adriaan Emont in Houbraken's Ary Huibertsz Verveer biography
- 1 2 3 4 Adriaen van Eemont in the RKD
- ↑ Adriaen van Eemont in the Dordrechts Museum