Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten

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an Abrahamsz Beerstraten

(Amsterdam 1622 - Amsterdam 1666)

Biography

A Mediterranean Harbour with Men-o'War, Shipping and Merchants on a Quay by a Tower

Biography

Beerstraten may have been a pupil of Claes Claesz. Wou (1592–1665), a marine painter in the Flemish tradition, who seems to have influenced his paintings of sea battles. His southern ports and seashores were influenced by the works of such Dutch Italianate painters as Nicolaes Berchem and Jan Baptist Weenix. Unlike his townscapes, Beerstraten’s ports were totally imaginary, sometimes with a well-known northern European building incorporated on the seashore. It is not known whether he went to Italy, although in his paintings the southern light seems to be accurately conveyed, as in the Imaginary View of a Port with the Façade of Santa Maria Maggiore of Rome (formerly known as the ‘Port of Genoa’, 1662, Paris, Louvre). For his Italian subjects he may have copied drawings given to him by Johannes Lingelbach, an Italianate painter who had been to Italy. Lingelbach occasionally painted the figures in Beerstraten’s compositions. His drawings represent themes similar to those of his paintings.

His townscapes were mostly winter scenes, as in the first known topographical painting by him: View of Oude Kerk in the Winter (1659; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Although his work reflects the increased public interest in topography in mid-seventeenth-century Amsterdam, there is also a somewhat romantic atmosphere pervading his winter landscapes. His colours are generally tonal and his style soft by comparison with the clearly defined townscapes by Jan van der Heyden. His subjects were also romanticised, as in the Ruins of the Old Town Hall of Amsterdam after the Fire of 7 July 1652 (1653; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Shortly before his death Jan Beerstraten painted the Church of Nieuwkoop (Hamburg, Kunsthalle), depicting the church under a dark, cloudy sky, with a funeral procession emerging from behind it.

Collections
Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten is represented in the following collections: Hermitage, St. Petersburg; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Louvre, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery, London; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Courtauld Institute of Art, London; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, amongst others.