Lodewijk van der Helst (1642 – ?), was a
Dutch Golden Age
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painter.
Biography
He was born in Amsterdam as the son and pupil of
Bartholomeus van der Helst
Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613 – buried 16 December 1670) was a Dutch painter. Considered to be one of the leading portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, his elegant portraits gained him the patronage of Amsterdam's elite as well as th ...
and grew up at
Nieuwmarkt
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The square is considered part of Amsterdam's Chinatown, next ...
.
[Lodewijk van der Helst]
in the RKD
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Early 1671 he and his sister Susanne assisted their mother when they visited their father's studio, located near
Walloon church
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(behind "Vleeshal") where his belongings were registered.
City Archives Boedelinventaris B. van der Helst, 8/1/1671
/ref> His father owned many painting by Willem van de Velde the younger
Willem van de Velde the Younger (18 December 1633 (baptised)6 April 1707) was a Dutch marine painter, the son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, who also specialised in maritime art. His brother, Adriaen van de Velde, was a landscape painter. ...
, the schilder-boeck by , Metamorphoses
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by Ovid, Serlio, Scamozzi, Vitruvius
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and Palladio
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; portraits of Dutch admirals ( Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, etc.)
The artist married in 1677, living on Herengracht. He disagreed and quarrelled with his sister about the heritage after their mother died. In 1680 a son Lodewijk was baptized. He appears to have left the city by 1684 after his wife died who left two children behind. His place and date of death is unknown.[ Lodewijks portrait of admiral Augustus Stellingwerf was engraved by Abraham Blooteling.
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References
Lodewijk van der Helst
on Artnet
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1642 births
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Amsterdam
Year of death unknown
Place of death unknown
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