Portrait of Jan van Huysum

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1682-1749

Dutch Baroque Painter

Jan van Huysum (April 15, 1682 - February 8, 1749), Dutch painter, was born at Amsterdam.
He was the son of Justus van Huysum, who is said to have been expeditious in decorating doorways, screens and vases. A picture by Justus is preserved in the gallery of Brunswick, representing "Orpheus and the Beasts in a wooded landscape," and here we have some explanation of his son's fondness for landscapes of a conventional and Arcadian kind; for Jan van Huysum, though skilled as a painter of still life, believed himself to possess the genius of a landscape painter.
Half his pictures in public galleries are landscapes, views of imaginary lakes and harbours with impossible ruins and classic edifices, and woods of tall and motionless trees-the whole very glossy and smooth, and entirely lifeless. The earliest dated work of this kind is that of 1717, in the Louvre, a grove with maidens culling flowers near a tomb, ruins of a portico, and a distant palace on the shores of a lake bounded by mountains.
It is doubtful whether any artist ever surpassed van Huysum in representing fruit and flowers. It has been said that his fruit has no savour and his flowers have no perfume in other words, that they are hard and artificial--but this is scarcely true. In substance fruit and flower are delicate and finished imitations of nature in its more subtle varieties of matter. The fruit has an incomparable blush of down, the flowers have a perfect delicacy of tissue.
Van Huysum, too, shows supreme art in relieving flowers of various colours against each other, and often against a light and transparent background. He is always bright, sometimes even gaudy. Great taste and much grace and elegance are apparent in the arrangement of bouquets and fruit in vases adorned with has reliefs or in baskets on marble tables. There is exquisite and faultless finish everywhere. But what van Huysum has not is the breadth, the bold effectiveness, and the depth of thought of de Heem, from whom he descends through Abraham Mignon.
Some of the finest of van Huysum's fruit and flower pieces have been in English private collections: those of 1723 in the earl of Ellesmere's gallery, others of 1730-1732 in the collections of Hope and Ashburton. One of the best examples is now in the National Gallery, London (1736-1737). No public museum has finer and more numerous specimens than the Louvre, which boasts of four landscapes and six panels with still life; then come Berlin and Amsterdam with four fruit and flower pieces; then St Petersburg, Munich, Hanover, Dresden, the Hague, Brunswick, Vienna, Carlsruhe and Copenhagen.

46 Jan van Huysum Paintings

Still Life of Grapes Peaches a Melon and other Fruit, c.1727/28 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Still Life of Grapes Peaches a Melon and other Fruit c.1727/28

Oil Painting
$5642
Canvas Print
$57.92
SKU: HUY-4863
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 81.3 x 61 cm
Private Collection

Still Life of Fruit Upon a Marble Ledge, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Still Life of Fruit Upon a Marble Ledge n.d.

Oil Painting
$7144
SKU: HUY-4864
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80.2 x 60.3 cm
Private Collection

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit n.d.

Oil Painting
$3910
Canvas Print
$58.77
SKU: HUY-13075
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 81 x 61 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Vase with Flowers on a Socle, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Vase with Flowers on a Socle n.d.

Oil Painting
$3952
Canvas Print
$57.22
SKU: HUY-13076
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
Petit Palais Musee des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

Still Life with Flowers and Fruits, 1749 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Still Life with Flowers and Fruits 1749

Oil Painting
$2739
Canvas Print
$60.45
SKU: HUY-13077
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 66.5 x 52 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Vase of Flowers in a Niche, c.1725/35 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Vase of Flowers in a Niche c.1725/35

Oil Painting
$4093
Canvas Print
$58.48
SKU: HUY-13078
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 61 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Still Life with Flowers, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Still Life with Flowers n.d.

Oil Painting
$3434
Canvas Print
$80.33
SKU: HUY-13079
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 63 x 50 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, c.1736/37 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Flowers in a Terracotta Vase c.1736/37

Oil Painting
$7020
Canvas Print
$52.74
SKU: HUY-13080
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 133.5 x 91.5 cm
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Flowers in a Terracotta Vase n.d.

Oil Painting
$4000
Canvas Print
$52.04
SKU: HUY-13081
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
Public Collection

Vase with Flowers, c.1720 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Vase with Flowers c.1720

Oil Painting
$3574
Canvas Print
$58.90
SKU: HUY-13082
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79.1 x 60.6 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Roses, Morning Glory, Narcissi, Aster and Other Flowers in a Basket, 1744 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Roses, Morning Glory, Narcissi, Aster and Other ... 1744

Oil Painting
$1893
Canvas Print
$50.89
SKU: HUY-13083
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 26 x 19.5 cm
Private Collection

Flower Still Life, 1706 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Flower Still Life 1706

Oil Painting
$3711
Canvas Print
$61.99
SKU: HUY-13084
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 89 x 72 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Flowers in a Vase with a Snail on a Ledge, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Flowers in a Vase with a Snail on a Ledge n.d.

Oil Painting
$3356
Canvas Print
$64.66
SKU: HUY-13085
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 63 x 53 cm
Private Collection

Still Life with Fruit and Butterfly, c.1735 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Still Life with Fruit and Butterfly c.1735

Oil Painting
$1408
Canvas Print
$50.89
SKU: HUY-13086
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 21 x 27 cm
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly, c.1735 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly c.1735

Oil Painting
$1306
Canvas Print
$50.89
SKU: HUY-13087
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 21 x 27 cm
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

Vase with Flowers, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Vase with Flowers n.d.

Oil Painting
$2346
Canvas Print
$56.95
SKU: HUY-15692
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 84 x 62.2 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Landscape with Figures, Ruins and Bridge, c.1709/30 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Landscape with Figures, Ruins and Bridge c.1709/30

Oil Painting
$968
Canvas Print
$50.89
SKU: HUY-16371
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 23.5 x 29.2 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Bouquet of Flowers, b.1716 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Bouquet of Flowers b.1716

Oil Painting
$4402
Canvas Print
$59.47
SKU: HUY-16372
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 90 x 71 cm
Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

Basket of Flowers with Butterflies, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Basket of Flowers with Butterflies n.d.

Oil Painting
$2447
Canvas Print
$55.41
SKU: HUY-16373
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 53 x 41 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Vase of Flowers in a Park with Statue, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Vase of Flowers in a Park with Statue n.d.

Oil Painting
$3581
Canvas Print
$57.36
SKU: HUY-16374
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 61 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Pot Vase with Flowers and Fruits, n.d. by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Pot Vase with Flowers and Fruits n.d.

Oil Painting
$3095
Canvas Print
$65.78
SKU: HUY-18920
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 59 x 51 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany

Bouquet of Flowers, 1714 by Jan van Huysum | Painting Reproduction

Bouquet of Flowers 1714

Oil Painting
$3993
Canvas Print
$58.63
SKU: HUY-18921
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79 x 60.3 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany

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