Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden...

Houbraken is a Dutch-language surname. People with this surname include: Antonina Houbraken (1686–1736), Dutch artist, daughter of Arnold Houbraken Arnold...

Jacobus Houbraken (25 December 1698 – 14 November 1780) was a Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), whom...

largely based on embellished anecdotes of his early biographers like Arnold Houbraken; there is no direct evidence that Hals did drink heavily. After his...

works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women. According to Arnold Houbraken, he and his brother were pupils of Frans Hals and like him, spent most...

entitled Het Schilder-Boeck. One of van Hoogstraten's many students, Arnold Houbraken, later wrote the book entitled The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters...

artist, spelled his name with a "y". Jacob's earliest biographer, Arnold Houbraken, called him Jakob Ruisdaal. It is not known whether Ruisdael's mother...

Jupiter and Io by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout Jupiter, Juno and Io by Arnold Houbraken Jupiter and Io by Jacob Pynas at The Fitzwilliam Museum, UK Jupiter...

1666, to make sketches. In his work on the biographies of artists, Arnold Houbraken quotes Gerard Brandt's biography of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, relating...

books included Schouburgh by Arnold Houbraken. Houbraken claimed that the cabinet held portraits of over 100 people (Houbraken was writing in 1712). The...

schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature "Getty Artists...

his works are known to have survived. According to his biographer, Arnold Houbraken, Fabritius's student Mattias Spoors and church deacon Simon Decker...

throughout his lifetime. Little is known about Aelbert Cuyp's life. Even Arnold Houbraken, a noted historian of Dutch Golden Age paintings and the sole authority...

July 1707, Utrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Arnold Houbraken he was a pupil of Jan Lievens and Abraham Bloemaert who later took...

schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Pieter Claesz...

mother. Isabella was buried in the Zuiderkerk in 1718. According to Arnold Houbraken, Metsu was taught by Gerard Dou, though prior to about 1653 his influence...

schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Self-portrait...

landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael. According to Arnold Houbraken, Ruysdael was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy...

painters from the Haarlem guild. This list was used as a source for Arnold Houbraken, who added these painters to his list. Much later Vincent's grandson...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Arnold Houbraken, 1690–1700, on display at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Sacrifice...

brothers, the painters Jan and Caesar van Everdingen, according to Arnold Houbraken, were taught by Roelandt Savery at Utrecht. Allaert moved in 1645 to...

exchange for training him as a painter of church interiors. According to Arnold Houbraken, after an argument about the rent, de Witte hanged himself from a canal...

schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital Library for Dutch Literature  One or more...

from Amsterdam to London, Antwerp, The Hague and Berlin. According to Arnold Houbraken, Jan was the son of Lieven Hendriksze, an embroiderer (borduurwerker)...

fame for future generations, according to the Dutch artist biographer Arnold Houbraken. The painting was admired by Godfried Kneller and Joshua Reynolds....

biographies with engraved portraits written by the 18th-century painter Arnold Houbraken. It was published in three volumes as a sequel to Karel van Mander's...

Cornelis de Bie, in his Spiegel vande Verdrayde Werelt (1708), and Arnold Houbraken, in his De Groote Schouburgh (1718–1721), produced biographies where...

schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature "Johan de Witt...

Dutch Golden Age. We first get acquainted with Willem Kalf through Arnold Houbraken, in his Groot Schilderboek, who speaks very highly of him. In fact...

Zwolle – 1662 in Zwolle), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Arnold Houbraken, who referred to him as Gerard Terburg's father, he was a good painter...