Gerard van Honthorst

1592–1656 · Baroque

Gerard "Gerrit" van Honthorst was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the Italian nickname Gherardo delle Notti. Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio. Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter. Van Honthorst's contemporaries included Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen.

39 paintings

• A Boy Blowing on a Firebrand (1621–22)
• Samson and Delilah (c. 1616)
• Portrait of Amalia van Solms (1602-1675) (1650)
• Portrait of an unknown man (1655)
• Christ Crowned with Thorns (1614)
• Musical Group on a Balcony (1622)
• Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (The Agony in the Garden) (1617)
• The Denial of Peter (1612)
• Woman tuning a lute (1624)
• Portrait of William III, Prince of Orange, and Maria, Princess of Orange, as Children (1653)
• A Child Picking Fruit (1632)
• Double Portrait of Frederik Hendrik (1584- 1647) and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602- 1675) (1637)
• The Violin Player (1626)
• A merry group behind a balustrade with a violin and a lute player (1623)
• The Triumph of the Winter Queen: Allegory of the Just (1636)
• Christ before the High Priest (1617)
• Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1642)
• The Concert (1623)
• Portrait of an officer (1644)
• Portrait of Frederik Hendrik (1584 - 1647), Prince of Orange (1650)
• The Merry Fiddler (1623)
• Portrait of Frederik Hendrik (1584-1647), Prince of Orange (1653)
• Portrait of Willem III (1650-1702), Prince of Orange (1653)
• Portrait of Louise Christina (1606-69), Countess of Solms-Braunfels (1650)
• Willem II (1626-50), Prince of Orange, and his wife Maria Stuart (1631-60) (1647)
• Friedrich Wilhelm (1620-88), Elector of Brandenburg, and his wife Louise Henriette (1627-67), Countess of Orange-Nassau (1647)
• Frederik Hendrik (1584-1647), Prince of Orange, his wife Amalia van Solms (1602-75) and their three youngest daughters, Albertina Agnes (1634-96), Henrietta Catharina (1637-1708) and Maria (1642-88) (1647)
• Portrait of an artist (1655)
• Portrait of a woman (1655)
• Shepherd playing the flute, and four shepherdesses (1632)
• Putti with a wreath of flowers (1650)
• Christ Crowned with Thorns (1622)
• Satyr and Nymph (1623)
• Musiceren ved levende lys (1623)
• Dianas toilette (1650)
• En gammel kone (1623)
• Ung pige med lysestage, gammel kone, samt violinspiller (1605-1656)
• The happy Violinist (1624)
• Adoration of the Child (1620)