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See also:HELST, BARTHOLOMAEUS See also:VAN DER , Dutch painter, was See also:born in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland at the opening of the 17th See also:century, and died at See also:Amsterdam in 1670. The date and See also:place of his See also:birth are uncertain; and it is equally difficult to confirm or to deny the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time-honoured statement that he was born in 1613 at Amsterdam. It has been urged indeed by competent authority that Van der Heist was not a native of Amsterdam, because a See also:family of that name lived as See also:early as 1607 at See also:Haarlem, and pictures are shown as See also:works of Van der Helst in the Haarlem Museum which might tend to prove that he was in practice there before he acquired repute at Amsterdam. Unhappily See also:Bartholomew has not been traced amongst the See also:children of Severijn van der Heist, who married at Haarlem in 1607, and there is no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof that the pictures at Haarlem are really his; though if they were so they would show that he learnt his See also:art from Frans See also:Hals and became a skilled See also:master as early as 1631. Scheltema, a very competent See also:judge in matters of Dutch art See also:chronology, supposes that Van der Heist was a See also:resident at Amsterdam in 1636. His first See also:great picture, representing a gathering of civic See also:guards at a brewery, is variously assigned to 1639 and 1643, and still adorns the See also:town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of Amsterdam. His See also:noble portraits of the burgomaster See also:Bicker and Andreas Bicker the younger, in the See also:gallery of Amsterdam, of the same date no doubt as Bicker's wife lately in the Ruhl collection at See also:Cologne, were completed in 1642. From that time till his See also:death there is no difficulty in tracing Van der Heist's career at Amsterdam. He acquired and kept the position of a distinguished portrait-painter, producing indeed little or nothing besides portraits at any time, but See also:founding, in See also:conjunction with See also:Nicolaes de Helt Stokade, the painters' guild at Amsterdam in 1654. At some unknown date he married See also:Constance Reynst, of a See also:good patrician family in the See also:Netherlands, bought himself a See also:house in the Doelenstrasse and ended by earning a competence. His likeness of See also:Paul See also:Potter at the See also:Hague, executed in 1654, and his See also:partnership with See also:Backhuysen, who laid in the backgrounds of some of his pictures in 1668, indicate a See also:constant companionship with the best artists of the time. Wagen has said that his portrait of See also:Admiral Kortenaar; in the gallery of Amsterdam, betrays the teaching of Frans Hals, and the statement need not be gainsaid; yet on the whole Van der Heist's career as a painter was mainly a protest against the systems of Hals and See also:Rembrandt. It is needless to dwell on the pictures which preceded that of 1648, called the See also:Peace of See also:Munster, in the gallery of Amsterdam. The Peace challenges comparison at once with the so-called See also:Night See also:Watch by Rembrandt and the less important but not less characteristic portraits of Hals and his wife in a neighbouring See also:room. See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds was disappointed by Rembrandt, whilst Van der Heist surpassed his expectation. But See also:Burger asked whether Reynolds had not already been struck with See also:blindness when he ventured on this See also:criticism. The question is still an open one. But certainly Van der Heist attracts by qualities entirely differing from those of Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Nothing can be more striking than the contrast between the strong concentrated, See also:light and the deep gloom of Rembrandt and the contempt of See also:chiaroscuro
See also:peculiar to his See also:rival, except the contrast between the rapid sketchy See also:touch of Hals and the careful finish and rounding of van der Helst. " The Peace " is a See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of guards to celebrate the See also:signature of the treaty of Munster. The members of the Doele of St See also:George meet to feast and congratulate each other not at a formal banquet but in a spot laid out for good cheer, where de Wit, the See also:captain of his.See also:company, can shake hands with his See also:lieutenant Waveren, yet hold in See also:solemn See also:state the great drinking-See also:horn of St George. The See also:rest of the company sit, stand or busy themselves around—some eating, others. drinking, others See also:carving or serving—an animated See also:scene on a See also:long See also:canvas, with figures large as See also:life. Well has Burger said, the heads are full of life and the hands admirable. The dresses and subordinate parts are finished to a nicety without See also:sacrifice of detail or loss of breadth in touch or impast. But the See also:eye glides from shape to shape, arrested here by expressive features, there by a See also:bright stretch of See also:colours, nowhere at perfect rest because of the lack of a central thought in light and shade, harmonies or See also:composition. Great as the qualities of van der Helst undoubtedly are, he remains below the See also:line of demarcation which separates the second from the first-See also:rate masters of art.
His pictures are very numerous, and almost uniformly good; but in his later creations he wants See also:power, and though still amazingly careful, he becomes See also:grey and woolly in touch. At Amsterdam the four regents in the Werkhuys (165o), four syndics in the gallery (1656), and four syndics in the town-hall (1657) are masterpieces, to which may be added a number of See also:fine single portraits. See also:Rotterdam, notwithstanding the See also:fire of 1864, still boasts of three of van der Heist's works. The Hague owns but one. St See also:Petersburg, on the other See also:hand, possesses ten or eleven, of various shades of excellence. The Louvre has three, See also:Munich four. Other pieces are in the galleries of See also:Berlin, See also:Brunswick, See also:Brussels, Carlsruhe, See also:Cassel, See also:Darmstadt, See also:Dresden, See also:Frankfort, See also:Gotha, See also:Stuttgart and See also:Vienna.
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