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Jan van der Vaart (painter)

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In 1713 van der Vaart sold off his collection and built a house in Covent Garden. He stopped painting and confined himself to the restoration of paintings because of his deteriorating eyesight. He died in London, a bachelor, and his nephew Arnold continued his restoration business.
77:. Van der Vaart painted draperies and landscapes in the portraits of Wissing. After Wissing's death in 1687, van der Vaart continued his workshop. He collaborated on occasion with the German-born painter 113:
He was a versatile painter and painted in a wide range of genres including flower still lifes, religious paintings, history paintings, landscapes, portraits and trompe-l'oeil still lives. According to
133:. Van der Vaart was himself one of the earliest practitioners of mezzotint in England and produced many prints after portraits made by portrait artists like Sir Peter Lely, Willem Wissing etc. 160: 270: 16: 213: 102: 275: 234: 265: 198: 69:. Van der Vaart is documented from 1674 onwards in London. Here he worked in the workshop of another Dutch immigrant, 209: 130: 88: 174: 260: 53:
artist who was active in England for most of his career. He was also an art restorer and art collector.
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Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 Feb. 2014.
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A number of van der Vaard's portraits were engraved in mezzotint by
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He was probably the teacher of the famous English mezzotint
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in: Anecdotes of painting in England, 1717-1797, p. 306
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Violin Suspended from a Knob Chatsworth House website
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he painted a trompe l'oeil of a violin on a door at
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Dutch
portraits
landscapes
trompe-l'œil
mezzotint
Haarlem
Thomas Wijck
Willem Wissing
Peter Lely
Johann Kerseboom

engraver
John Smith
Walpole
Chatsworth House
Bernard Lens
Edward Cooper




Biographical details
Netherlands Institute for Art History


Horace Walpole, 'John Vander Vaart'
Richard Jeffree. "Smith, John (i)."
Violin Suspended from a Knob Chatsworth House website
Jan van der Vaart (1647-1721)

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