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in the Rijksmuseum, a canvas with 19 life-size figures full of animation in the faces, "radiant with Rembrandtesque colour," and admirably distributed. Flinck here painted his own likeness to the left in a doorway. The mannered period of Flinck is amply illustrated in the
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In the same year he received a flattering acknowledgment from the town council of Cleves and the completion of a picture of Solomon which was a counterpart of the composition at Amsterdam. This and other pictures and portraits, such as those of Friedrich Wilhelm and
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at Amsterdam. Here it is that Flinck shows most defects, being faulty in arrangement, gaudy in tint, flat and shallow in execution, that looks as if it had been smeared with violet powder and rouge.
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and other figures at the cradle of the first-born son of the elector, have disappeared. Of several pictures which were painted for the Great Elector, none are preserved except the
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For many years Flinck laboured on the lines of Rembrandt, following that master's style in all the works which he executed between 1636 and 1648. With aspirations as a
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and the treasurer Johannes Uitenbogaard. In his house, adorned with casts after the Antique, costumes, and a noble collection of prints, he often received the
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The chronology of Flinck's works, so far as they are seen in public galleries, comprises, in addition to the foregoing, the
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Amsterdam. Both are thoroughly Rembrandtesque in effect as well as in vigour of touch and warmth of flesh tints. The four
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In November 1659 the burgomaster of Amsterdam contracted with Flinck for 12 canvases to represent four heroic figures of
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In 1652 a citizen of Amsterdam, Flinck married in 1656 an heiress, Sophie van der Houven, daughter of a director of the
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was asked to fill one of the commissions, and produced his last great history picture, the
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Pieter C. Vis: Andries de Graeff (1611–1678) ’t Gezagh is heerelyk: doch vol bekommeringen
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John Maurice, whose portrait is still preserved in the work of the learned
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Militia Company of District XVIII under the Command of Captain Albert Bas
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Marcus Curius Dentatus refuses the gifts of the Samnites
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Angels announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds
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with their president in an arm-chair (1648); in the
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presided; he was on terms of intimacy with the poet
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Govert Flink

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Scotland
Kleve
Dutch Republic
Amsterdam
Dutch Republic
Dutch
Rembrandt van Rijn
Painting
Dutch Golden Age
Baroque
painter
Dutch Golden Age
Kleve
Duchy of Cleves
mercer
Leeuwarden
Lambert Jacobszoon
Mennonite
Jacob Backer
Rombertus van Uylenburgh
Saskia
Rembrandt
Amsterdam
Joachim von Sandrart
Hendrick van Uylenburgh
history painter
Peter Paul Rubens

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