Quirijn van Brekelenkam

Quiringh van Brekelenkam (* around 1620 probably in Zwammerdam in Leiden, † 1668 in Leiden, . Actually Quiringh Gerritsz van Brekelenkam ) was a Dutch genre painter.

Life

Little is known about the origin and formation of van Brekelenkam. Maybe he was a pupil of Gerard Dou, to whose work the early works have a big close up. During this time, van Brekelenkam mainly painted hermit and representations of the simple domestic life. Later he turned to then also refined interior scenes as well as market and sell scenes. In these works he is in the tradition of Gabriel Metsu, Gerard ter Borch and Jan Steen. Van Brekelenkam was co-founder of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke, which he joined in 1648.

He has a large number of genre pictures painted from the life of the people, of which around 170 have survived.

Works (selection)

• Aachen, Suermondt Ludwig Museum The fish seller.
• The application.

• The mousetrap. 1660
• The tailor's workshop. 1661
• The intimate conversation. 1661
• Interior with fishermen and man at the spinning wheel. 1663
• Interior with two men in front of a fireplace. 1664
• A mother feeds her child.
• Interior with woman and man lesendem ( The Reader ).
• The tenant and his tenant. ( attributed to )

• Still life with fish and oysters. 1660
• The Fruit Seller. 1661
• Young woman at the spinning wheel. 1667

• The fish seller. 1665

• The tailor's workshop. to 1653 - 1661
• The traveling schoolmaster. 1666

• Woman, a little girl feeding. 1660
• Card -playing couple. 1662
• The fishwife. 1664
• An old man with fish.
• An old woman with vegetables.

• The spinner. 1669
• Woman and man drink wine. ( attributed to )

• St. Hyacinth.

• The vegetable stand. 1665

• The weekly visit.

• The fruit dealer.

• Farmhouse kitchen. 1659

• Kitchen Still Life. 1660
• Kitchen interior with orange seller.
• Seated Woman with velvet jacket at the needlework.

• The grace. 1655

• Reading old woman. 1652
• The fisherman. to 1660 - 1665
• Fishwife. 1665

• Praying Monk. 1656

• Old Man with book. 1663
• The fishwife. 1666

• Old eating woman. ( attributed to )

• When reading eingeschlafene older woman. about 1648
• Interior with a man and a woman sitting by the fireplace. 1653
• The tailor's workshop. to 1655-1661

• Praying hermit. to 1654-1657
• Praying hermit. 1657
• The fish seller. 1665

• Interior with woman at the fish selectively. 1664
• Family sitting at the kitchen fire.

• The spinner. 1653
• Sentimental entertainment.

• Interior with mother and child. 1660

• The shoemaker's workshop. 1660

• Spinning husband and carrots peeled woman. to 1653/54

• A hermit in his hermitage.

• The hospital visit. 1667

• Portrait of a woman.

• The Hermit. 1661
• Shoemaker in his workshop.

• Interior with older couple at the meal. to 1650-1660

• The tailor's workshop. to 1653-1655

• The fish purchase.