#Gerrit van Honthorst

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Lord Celibrimbor, S2.Ep8 Gerrit van Honthorst, Saint Sebastian (1623)

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Saint Sebastian, 1623, Gerrit van Honthorst

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The Happy Violinist, Gerard van Honthorst, ca. 1624

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Christus vor dem Hohenpriester, 1617 von Gerrit van Honthorst (1617, Öl auf Leinwand)

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Gerrit van Honthorst Satyr and Nymph 1623

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The Violin Player | Gerrit van Honthorst | 1626 | Mauritshuis

"The Utrecht painter Van Honthorst lived for a while in Rome, where he was influenced by the work of Caravaggio. He caused a sensation with his night paintings, which gave him the nickname ‘Gherardo delle Notti’, Gerrit of the Nights. But he also made cheerful figure paintings, such as this enticing young woman.

Van Honthorst was one of the Utrecht Caravaggists, and his modern, dramatic style had a great influence on Dutch painting. When he became court painter to stadholder Frederik Hendrik, his style became gradually daintier."

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Prince Rupert (1619-82) - nephew of King Charles I

Gerrit van Honthorst

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A Merry Violinist Holding a Roemer Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch; 1592–1656) ca. 1624 Oil on canvas Sotheby’s, New York

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Double Portrait of Frederik Hendrik (1584- 1647) and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602- 1675)

Artist: Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch, 1592–1656)

Date: c.1637-1638

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Depicted People:

Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau 

Amalia of Solms-Braunfels

Description

This portrait of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik and Amalia of Solms was painted by their court painter, Gerrit van Honthorst. It is clearly an official state portrait: the couple are depicted in all their finery, life-size and full length. It was made to mark Frederik Hendrik’s recapture of Breda in 1637.

Van Honthorst painted the portrait for the Grote Zaal (Large Hall) at Huis ter Nieuburg, one of the stadholder’s residences near Rijswijk, but the painting was later lost. The painting here is a copy made by Van Honthorst for Constantijn Huygens, Frederik Hendrik’s secretary. It originally hung in Huygens’s home on the Plein, opposite the Mauritshuis.

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8/xx Gerrit van Honthorst, the Duke of Buckingham and his family, 1628, royal collections trust.

George and Kate had 4 children:

Mary Villiers (1622-1685) married 1st Lord Herbert, no children. Married 2nd James Stuart Duke of Richmond and Lennox - 2 children.

Charles Villiers (1625-1627) earl of Coventry. Died in infancy.

George Villiers (1627-1687) 2nd Duke of Buckingham married Mary Fairfax (Thomas fairfax’s daughter), no children.

Francis Viliers (1628/9 - 1648) killed in a skirmish at Kingston. Unmarried, no children.

Officially* there are no living direct descendants of George and Kate alive today. All members of the Villiers family are via George’s brothers and half brothers. The Fielding earls of Denbigh are the descendants of George’s sister Susan.

* of course given the antics of George and George Jr who knows what flotsam and jetsam is hanging around the gene pool.

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De Profundis, Oscar Wilde (1897 [1905]) / Narcissus, Caravaggio (1597- 99) / Narcissus, Helen Thornycroft (1876) / Echo and Narcissus, William Waterhouse (1903) / Divine Looser, Clem Turner (2021) / The fall of Icarus, Jacob Peter Gowy (1635- 37) / Saint Sebastian, Gerrit van Honthorst (ca 1623) / Humanitad, Oscar Wilde (ca 1890)

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Gerrit van Honthorst, The Concert, 1623, oil/canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

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A merry violinist holding a roemer, Gerrit van Honthorst

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Musical Group on a Balcony

Artist: Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590 - 1656)

Genre: Genre Art

Date: 1622

Medium: Oil on Panel

Collection: Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

Smiling, singing figures gather around a balcony to play musical instruments, inviting the viewers below to join in the fun. The revelers' facial expressions and bright colorful clothes heighten the festive, carefree mood. A parrot and a dog, gazing down from their perches, round out the merry group. Possibly part of an allegory of Harmony, the painting may have originally been slightly wider and twice as long, containing a complete balustrade and more figures. The head of the man at the top is a modern addition.

Gerrit van Honthorst painted this illusionistic ceiling, the earliest of its type made in the Netherlands in 1622, two years after his return from Italy, where he saw similar painted ceilings. Careful calculation of perspective allows the figures to burst plausibly through the flat plane of the painted panel.

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Adoration of the Shepherds, 1617 by Gerrit van Honthorst

(1617, Öl auf Leinwand)

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“St Sebastian” by Gerrit van Honthorst