Gerrit Berckheyde
(1638–1698) Dutch painter (1638-1698)
Gerrit Berckheyde (1638–1698) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Gerrit Berckheyde belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.
Gerrit Berckheyde was born in Haarlem and died in Haarlem. The teachers included Frans Hals and Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde. Gerrit Berckheyde became a member of Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. The students included Gaspar van Wittel.
The best-known works include ‘A hunting party near the Hofvijver and Binnenhof in The Hague, seen from the South’, ‘A hunting party near the Hofvijver in The Hague, seen from the South’, and ‘The ‘Golden Bend’ in the Herengracht, Amsterdam, Seen from the East’. The catalogue has 112 works by Gerrit Berckheyde with free images. The dated works span the years 1650–1700. Works by Gerrit Berckheyde are held by several collections, among them Frans Hals Museum, Amsterdam Museum, collection Adriaan van der Hoop, and National Gallery. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Martin van den Bogaert, Abraham Begeyn, Pieter Mulier den yngre, Joseph Werner, and Andrea Celesti.