Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh

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Hendrik Martensz Sorgh
Portrait of Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh 001.jpg
Hendrik Martensz Sorgh
Born
Hendrik Martensz

1610
Rotterdam
DiedJune 28, 1670(1670-06-28) (aged 60)
Rotterdam
NationalityNetherlands
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque seascapes

Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh (c. 1610 – buried June 28, 1670) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works.

Biography[]

Born in Rotterdam, Sorgh became a pupil of David Teniers the Younger and Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech.[1] Sorgh painted mostly interiors with peasants. His kitchen interiors feature elaborate still lifes. He also painted market scenes, portraits, and marine and historical scenes. Sorgh's works include, for example, A Man Writing, Interior with Jacob and Esau, and A Kitchen.

He married Adriaantje Hollaer on 20 February 1633. She became famous in 1947 because of her marriage portrait which had been painted by Rembrandt and was pictured on the Dutch 100-guilder banknote, printed from 1947 - 1950. Through her sister, he was brother-in-law to his friend the painter Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn.[2] Her portrait by Rembrandt was long considered a pendant companion to a portrait of him, but it is no longer certain since an 18th-century engraving of that portrait held the caption Nicholas Berchem.[3] The engraved portrait of him in Arnold Houbraken's The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters was based on his self-portrait, currently in a private collection.[4]

  • Interior scene by Sorgh

  • Marriage portrait of a man with a large black hat by Rembrandt's workshop, formerly thought to be Nicolaes Berchem, Hendrik Sorgh, and Carel Fabricius

  • Marriage portrait of his wife Adriaantje Hollaer, painted by Rembrandt's workshop, around the same time and considered a pendant to the man with the hat

  • An Interior Scene

  • Sailing in a strong vind

In 1659 he became headman of the Rotterdam Guild of St. Luke.[2] His pupils were , Abraham Diepraam, , Pieter Nijs, and Pieter Crijnse Volmarijn.[2]

There is also a painting by Hendrick Sorgh in the Hunterian Art Gallery ("Interior with Card Players") in Glasgow, Scotland.

References[]

  1. ^ (in Dutch) Hendrik Martensz biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh in the RKD
  3. ^ Print of this painting with Berchem as caption by Nicolo Schiavonetti in the RKD
  4. ^ Self-portrait by Sorgh in the RKD

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