Jervis McEntee Paintings geocoded

Eagle Cliff, Franconia, New Hampshire

The majority of this artist's scene paintings did not identify a specific location, but six instances are included in GeocodedArt which, like this example, refer to a unique location in their title.  Even in cases in which the title refers to a location, they are often general in nature, not of a recognizable landmark as in this case.

Mobile access to the paintings and their location provides the enjoyment of the image on the lcoation that inspired the artist

Jervis McEntee Paintings geocoded

Haarlem Paintings in Geocoded Art

Haarlem Paintings in Geocoded Art

The Market Place and the Grote Kerk at Haarlem, painting by Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde (1638-1698).   Most of the Dutch townscape painters have tried their hand at capturing Haarlem, the bustling commercial hub of the Golden Age.
  This page collects 20 views by 12 different artists and allows comparison to current street views of each of these sites.

Haarlem paintings geocoded

Paul Cornoyer Paintings in GeocodedArt

Late Afternoon, Washington Square

Painting by Paul Cornoyer (1864-1923). Cornoyer works are frequently framed with veiny, willowy trees, and the trees are most often bare; he painted more winter scenes in New York than any other painter.
  In this view there is foliage that is drinking in the early season warmth, and is appears to be getting transferred into the street life below.

Paul Cornoyer paintings geocoded

Utrecht Paintings Geocoded

Utrecht Paintings Geocoded to the Scene Shown

The Nicolaikerk, Utrecht, by Jan Hendrik Verheyen (1778-1846).  Get oriented to this Dutch city which is less famous, but one with architectural treasures that have inspired a generations of painters.  Eleven fine art scenes in a compact space.

Utrecht Paintings geocoded

Dordrecht Paintings Geocoded

Dordrecht Paintings

A view Of The Kleine Haven in Dordrecht, by Fredericus J van R Chattel (1856-1917), one of the 16 views of this iconic structure done by old masters and more contemporary artists, each with an appreciation for seeing the transcendent right before their eyes.

Dordrecht paintings geocoded

Sanford Robinson Gifford Paintings in GeocodedArt

South Bay on the Hudson, near Hudson NY

South Bay, on the Hudson, near Hudson, New York

Painted by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880). This is one of several works that Gifford (and others painters of the Hudson river school) did near the homes of Cole and Church, the earliest leaders of American landscape paintings. 
This view features a well-rutted road, a well farmed hillside, and a man handling a boat (the only common element you are likely to see there today). This work emphasizes the beauty of the ordinary, not the grand views or wild nature that have come to be regarded as the signature features of the Hudson River school. Gifford also traveled widely and captured sites with the same pleasing blend of light, color, and texture.

Sanford Robinson Gifford paintings geocoded

Jasper Francis Cropsey Paintings in Geocoded Art

The Narrows from Staten Island

Painted by Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900). Cropsey's many paintings in his native New York are most often studies in color more than topography or dramatic of water and sky. 
He tended to autumnal colors, even in this scene that must be late summer, judging by the foliage. 

Long before this site came to be dominated by the Bridge it provided the citizenry with a vista of the Hudson heading out to see and all that lay beyond. But the near features come in for detailed treatment, in the foliage and beaches on Long Island. Note even the shadows beginning to reach over the artist's shoulder.

Jasper Cropsey paintings geocoded

Colin Campbell Cooper paintings in GeoCodedArt

Painted by Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937).
Like other of Cooper's paintings of Manhattan, this image spills over with color and civic pride. He had done an earlier work of Trinity Church and the Trinity Building before completion of the distant tower, the Woolworth building, which was the tallest building in the world when it was completed. 

Colin Campbel Cooper paintings geocoded

Three Towers

David Johnson Paintings Geocoded

View of the Hudson from Barrytown NY

Painted by David Johnson (1827-1908). The featureless sky was a device Johnson used frequently to keep the viewer's focus on the good Earth below. The foliage, as much as dramatic terrain, was an inspiration; there's not much to Barrytown today, other than beautiful sloping hillsides. But this image is a fine example of how the taking the artist's perspective can create an extraordinary view out of a seemingly ordinary place.

David Johnson paintings

Francis Silva paintings in GeocodedArt

Kingston Point, Hudson River

Painting by Francis A. Silva (1835-1886).  Virtually all of Silva's paintings are focused on water; scenes of calm rivers greatly outnumber the seascapes,  and few of those have any measure of wave action.

He often painted boats with their sails full of wind, and seemingly full of promise. The ideal situation on the water appears to be a different world from the gritty bank where the observer stands, and to which the painter devoted a great deal of attention.

Silva paintings geocoded

Cornelis Springer paintings in GeocodedArt

The Gemeenlandshuis and the Old Church, Delft, Summer

Painting by Cornelis Springer (1817-1891).  The last great master of the Dutch townscape, he re-covered a lot of the ground that others had made iconic hundreds of years before.  If there is anything that distinguishes these views as more nearly modern, it may be that the great towers that dominate the towns are in a slightly romantic soft focus; perhaps still reverenced if not worshiped for what they represent.  The activities in the street receive more detailed attention.

Springer paintings geocoded

Gerrit Berckheyde Paintings in GeoCodedArt

View of Amsterdam

Painting by Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde (1638-1698). A prolific painter of townscapes of Amsterdam and The Hague. He often painted the same buildings or neighborhoods from slightly different vantage points, but did very few interiors or imaginary scenes.  Compared to his contemporaries, he did not put much effort into realistic clouds, but frequently left facades of buildings in shadow, heightening the realism of the view.

Berckheyde paintings geocoded

Eduard Alexander Hilverdink paintings in GeocodedArt

A snowy view of the Smedestraat, Haarlem

Painting by Eduard Alexander Hilverdink (1846-1891).  His paintings, virtually all exteriors, include a great deal of atmosphere.  You get the sense that you can tell how soon rain (or more snow) is coming.  His did some marine works, but the architecture of city centers was his principal subject.  The street life he shows is minimal, and is there not to be appreciate for itself but to help set the mood and add perspective for rendering the key feature into the hazy distance.

Hilverdink paintings geocoded

Johannes Christiaan Karel Klinkenberg Paintings in GeocodedArt

The Port of Enkhuizen

painting by Johannes Klinkenberg.  Great billowing clouds lend a distinctive Dutch air to all his outdoor works.  Touches of modern city life creep into works that still have some Golden Age romance in them, in buildings which strain to reach the light that animates all.

Klinkenberg paintings geocoded

Hendrik Keun Paintings in GeocodedArt

View on the Houtmarkt in Amsterdam

Painting by Hendrik Keun (1738-1788).  Very clear, unemotional pictures of a busy city, with views chosen to emphasize the role of waterways as the life blood of the prosperous, but not ornate, life.

Keun paintings geocoded

Jan Weissenbruch Paintings in GeocodedArt

View of the Wall Houses at the Thieves Tower in Amersfoort

Painting by Jan Weissenbruch (1822-1880).  The crisp architectural style is quite distinct from that of his cousin's looser landscape work.  He did not pick the most imposing civic structures as his subjects, though they all include recognizable features.  His viewpoints are always such that a feeling for average street life is appreciated.

Jan Weissenbruch geocoded

George Hendrik Breitner Paintings in GeocodedArt

The Toren of Gorkum

Painting by George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923).  Breitner stuck with a dark, muted palette; his cityscapes particularly looked like days when the pedestrians would be happy to get home and be out of the weather.  His many interiors and figure studies carried the same atmosphere inside.

George Breitner paintings geocoded

Johan Weissenbruch Paintings in GeocodedArt

View of Haarlem from the Dunes

Painting by Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (1824-1903).  This artist painted a variety of scenes: interior and exterior, city and country, and did some portraits as well.  The outdoor scenes were more likely not to be titled with a specific location, and those that are named tend not to be the recognizable landmarks painted by so many others in the Low Countries.  In the variety of settings and subjects he painted, they might all be described as "moody". 

Johan Weissenbruch paintings geocoded

Cornelis Vreedenburgh Paintings in GeocodedArt

The Montelbaanstoren, Amsterdam

Painting by Cornelis Vreedenburgh (1880-1946) 

His work is uniformly sunny, and evidently optimistic, infused with all that makes Dutch life such a pleasure.  There is a general haziness in place of sharp edges anywhere; the view always appears to be from the perspective of one whose eyes are half-closed in relaxed pleasure, enjoying the scene.

Vreedenburgh paintings geocoded

Oene Romkes de Jongh Paintings in GeocodedArt

A view of Amsterdam

Painting by Oene Romkes de Jongh (1812-1896). A prolific painter of town scenes in Amsterdam, most often without the specific location included in the title of the work.  His many works are curiously monochromatic: brownish buildings against a drab sky.  Somehow they did not possess the charm and vitality for him that they did for the great originators of the Dutch tradition of painting cityscapes.

Oene Romkes de Jongh geocoded

Pieter Gerard Vertin paintings in Geocoded Art

View of the Marekerk, Leiden

Painting by Pieter Gerard Vertin (1819-1893).  This artist produced many works that highlighted the typical architecture of Dutch cities and towns, usually in a style did not add much drama to the scene.  They were not images that you would remark that they captured a particularly beautiful day, and he did more wintry and snowy scenes than most vedute painters.

Vertin paintings geocoded

Salomon van Ruysdael paintings Geocoded

A Ferry Boat near Arnheim

Painting by Salomon van Ruysdael (1629-1681). One of a distinguished family of painters, his prolific work is almost exclusively landscapes, most featuring the great billowing clouds that sweep across the dead flat Low Countries.  A minority of the titles of the works identify the location specifically, and in the image any landmark is to be found in a distant steeple which acts as something of a pin market on the land.  The exception to this painting of "general river scene" is the great works of the unmistakable Valkhof at Nijmegen.

van Ruysdael paintings geocoded

van der Heyden paintings in Geocoded Art

View of castle Nijenrode on the Vecht

Painting by Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712).  The master's deep love of his country comes through in works that feature the great buildings of the great age.  Always fair skies, always the presence of an industrious and contented citizenry.

van der Heyden paintings geocoded

Jan van Goyen paintings Geocoded

View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil

Painting by Jan van Goyen (1596-1656).  The heavy atmosphere in all his works give an immediacy that belies the 400 intervening years between their creation and our sense that we could be standing just in the spot he was, feeling the same breeze and hearing the same activity on the nearby boats.

van Goyen paintings geocoded

van Bommel Paintings Geocoded

Ships berthing at the Tower of Hoorn

Painting by Elias Pieter van Bommel (1819-1890) 

van Bommel painted Dutch city life principally.  Architecture figured prominently in his work, but not in isolation: it usually served as a frame and reference point for the human activities that went on around it.  His work is about evenly split between naming a specific scene and rendering it as he saw it, and idealizing an unnamed setting, or transplanting a certain structure into an alternate setting.  One regular feature is slightly overcast skies: not too sunny, not too dramatic.

van Bommel paintings geocoded

Issac Ouwater paintings Geocoded

Nieuwe Kerk

Painting by Isaak Ouwater (1748-1793).  One of many expert city views, all painted to show the finest that the city had to offer in architecture, public spaces, favorable climate, and an elevated approach to life.  The many views he painted in Amsterdam are just blocks from each other, and would make invaluable contributions to assembling a view of Amsterdam life as it was.

Ouwater paintings geocoded

Paintings of Alkmaar in GeocodedArt

The Weight House, Alkmaar

The Weight House, Alkmaar, painting by Jacques Carabain (1834-1933)

A compact Dutch town, which exemplifies the impeccable North Holland lifestyle, has been a favorite subject of numerous painters over several centuries.  The life was made meaningful in the living, not in theorizing about living.

Paintings of Alkmaar geocoded

Jan ten Compe paintings in GeocodedArt

View on the Excise tower in Alkmaar

painting by Jan ten Compe (1713-1761). His townscapes are not romanticized, but celebrate the pride and joy of quiet Dutch industriousness: tidy towns that provide a good way of life for eminently civilized people.

Jan ten Compe paintings geocoded

Aelbert Cuyp paintings geocoded

View of Dordrecht at Sunset

painting by Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691). An artist most known for works that feature handsome livestock, Cuyp often used recognizable town features as a backdrop, and on occasion did a proper cityscape.  His favorite subject was the venerable city of Dordrecht, and he painted it in many moods, though none so lovingly as this example.

Cuyp paintings geocoded

Vetheuil paintings in GeocodedArt

Effect of Snow at Vétheuil

painting by Claude Monet (1840-1926).  Before Monet did his famous repeat studies of the doors of the Rouen cathedral in varieties of lighting, and before the studies of haystacks, he painted a dozen images of the town, river banks, and especially the Church at Vétheuil.  Not many artists had a commitment to capture in art a view of a place on a day and in conditions that most residents of the place would rather forget.

Vetheuil paintings geocoded