Huchtenburg

Life and work

Jan van Huchtenburgh studied with Thomas Wijck and then went very young to Rome to his brother Jacob van Huchtenburg who painted landscapes in Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem manner. This study trip to Italy should characterize the style of the artist sustainable.

After his brother died in 1667, Jan went to Paris to Adam Frans van der Meulen, the court painter of King Louis XIV, in which he further enhanced his education. 1670 he returned to Haarlem, where he began a trade with pictures. He accompanied in the years 1708 to 1717 the Austrian Field Marshal Prince Eugene of Savoy in its campaigns and battles him painted the great cycles, which then also in a picture the artist's work ( see bibliography ) published collected. Most of his paintings are now in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.

1711, van Huchtenburgh went to the court of the Elector Johann Wilhelm of the Palatinate, where he earned a great reputation. Later, he lived mostly in the Hague, and died 1733 in Amsterdam.

Huchtenburgh pictures remind in style to those of Philips Wouwerman, but they are of higher chroma and crudeness of execution. He stabbed and also erased many leaves after his and van der Meulen images.

Works (excerpt)

  • The storming of Belgrade 1688. Oil on canvas, 71 × 88 cm. State Gallery in the castle Plass, Kulmbach
  • The capture of Marshal Tallard at Blenheim in 1704. Oil on canvas, 65 × 75 cm. State Gallery in the castle Plass, Kulmbach
  • The Siege of Namur. Oil on canvas, 196.5 × 250.5 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, permanent loan to the Museum of Military History, Vienna
  • Riders fight. Oil on canvas, 160 × 192 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Reiter raid. Oil on canvas, 107 × 145.5 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Attack on a convoy column 1670/90, oil on canvas, 53.5 × 62.5 cm, Mauritshuis
  • Portrait of Imperial Prince Henry Casimir of Nassau- Dietz, 1692, oil on canvas, 121 × 165 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
  • The Battle of Ramillies, 1706/33, oil on canvas, 53.5 × 62.5 cm, Mauritshuis
  • The Battle of the Boyne, 1690/1733, oil on canvas, 110 × 169 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
  • The Battle of Staffarda on August 18, 1690 From: Jean Dumont baron de Jean Rousset de Missy and Carlscroon, Histoire militaire du Prince Eugene, 1729, copper engraving, 53 x 61 cm, Belvedere, Vienna
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