Aernout Elsevier (1579–c.1656) was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and art an ...

landscape painter.

Biography

Elsevier was born in

Douai Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, Do ...

. According to Houbraken he joined the Dordrecht

Guild of St. Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was identi ...

in 1646 together with

Abraham Susenier Abraham Susenier (c. 1620 in Leiden – 1666/72 in Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he was a still life painter especially good at painting silverwork, who joined the Dordrecht Guild of Saint Luke in 1646, the sa ...

and

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.Aernout Elsevier Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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He mentioned him again in his biographical sketch of

Jan van Goyen Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapesm marines, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscape, cityscap ...

as living in Leiden and still painting in the 1640s, along with his contemporaries

Cornelis Liefrinck Cornelis Liefrinck (1581–c. 1662) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography According to Houbraken he was born and lived in Leiden and was still painting in 1640, along with his contemporaries Arnout Elsevier, Jan van Goyen, and ...

, and Egmont Cornelisz Stooter. According to the RKD he worked in Leiden helping to set up the new painter's guild there from 1609 onwards.Aernout Elsevier
in the

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Besides Dordrecht and Leiden he worked in Vianen, Utrecht, and Rotterdam, where he reportedly lived with his second wife and where he probably died, some time after 1656. He is known for winter landscapes and "brandjes" (fires). He was the father of the painter Louwijs Aernouts Elsevier and ran a herberg (inn) as well as making his living from painting.

References

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