Philip van Dijk

Philip van Dijk ( van Dijk and van Dyck, van Dyk ) ( born January 10, 1683 Oud- Beijerland; † February 3, 1753 in The Hague) was a Dutch genre and portrait painter of the late Baroque.

Life

Philip van Dijk was noisy source location pupil of Arnold Boonen in Amsterdam, but is also performed as a pupil of Adriaen van der Werff in Rotterdam, where his marriage is occupied in 1708. In the same year he joined the Guild of St. Luke at Middelburg. In 1718 he was a member of the Confrérie Pictura in The Hague already a sought-after painter, who also trained painters, including Louis de Moni ( 1698-1771 ) and later, Jan Augustini ( 1725-1773 ) and Hendrik Pothoven ( 1725-1807 ).

In 1726 van Dijk went for ten years on the road, first to Kassel, where he served as court painter William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse -Kassel, was working. In this capacity, he included a portrait of Marie Louise of Hesse -Kassel and her family is attributed. 1737 again is in Middelburg, when he paid his contributions to the guild van Dijk. In 1750 he returned to The Hague; there he is registered as a court painter to William IV, Prince of Orange.

Work

Philip van Dijk was both in Middelburg and The Hague in a sought after genre and portrait painter; he worked also as equipment and decorative painter.

His finely executed, smooth painted figures followed as his genre paintings and miniatures of the fashion of his time. He also worked as an art dealer. His art collection was auctioned four months after his death on June 23, 1753 in The Hague,. , His widow on 26 November 1763 also in The Hague

Works by Philip van Dijk are, among others, in the museums of Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Gotha and Kassel. Jacobus Houbraken stabbed several paintings van Dijk in copper, including a self-portrait of the artist.