Adriaen van Ostade

Adriaen van Ostade
Jopparn, Public domain

(1610–1685) Dutch painter (1610–1685)

Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Adriaen van Ostade belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Adriaen van Ostade was born in Haarlem and died in Haarlem. Adriaen van Ostade studied under Frans Hals. Adriaen van Ostade worked in Haarlem, Utrecht, and Haarlem. Adriaen van Ostade became a member of Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. The students included Cornelis Pietersz Bega, Richard Brakenburgh, Cornelis Dusart, and Isaac van Ostade.

The best-known works include ‘Peasants in an inn’, ‘The Fiddler’, and ‘The Fish Market’. The works belong mainly to the genre genre painting. The catalogue has 250 works by Adriaen van Ostade with free images. The dated works span the years 1601–1800. Works by Adriaen van Ostade are held by several collections, among them Rosenwald Collection, Eremitaget, Rijksmuseum, and Department of Paintings of the Louvre. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, Hongren, Stefano della Bella, Susanna van Steenwijck, and Philip Fruytiers.