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Adriaen van Ostade Biography

Dutch Dutch Baroque painter, etcher, printmaker and watercolorist
born 1610 - died 1685

Also known as: Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade, Ad. Ostade, ......

Student of: Frans Hals (c.1581-1666).
Teacher of: Johannes de Groot (1650-1726).
Brother of: Isack van Ostade (1621-1649).

Member of: Ostade family

Adriaen van Ostade (Adriaen Hendricx) was born in 1610 in Haarlem. His father, Jan Hendricx, came from Ostade near Eindhoven, and his sons, Adriaen and Isaack, adopted this name as painters. In 1627, He was a pupil of Frans Hals, and, in 1634 joined the Lukas Guild in Haarlem of which he was later the head, in 1647, 1661 and 1662.

Adriaen van Ostade was one of the most popular Dutch painters, specializing from the start in genre painting of peasant life. In his early period, he was under the influence of A. Brouwer, in the 1640s of Rembrandt.

From about 1650 Adriaen van Ostade paintings turned more and more towards Delft genre oil painting, the interiors became more pleasant, and open-air scenes were added.
He had many pupils and followers, the most important among them were his younger brother, Isack, Jan Steen, Cornelis Dusart, and Cornelis Pietersz Bega.
The artist Adriaen van Ostade died in Haarlem in 1685.