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