Gerrit Berckheyde

Berckheyde was born and died in Haarlem. Christened as an infant 6 June 1638, he was the younger brother (by eleven years) and student of the painter Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde. Golden-age historian Arnold Houbraken claimed that Job had been trained as a bookbinder by his father, and could not discover who taught him to paint. Gerrit, in turn, learned from his older brother. He was followed by the painter Adriaen Oudendijck. == Works ==

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), he was a painter known for his Italianate landscapes as well as portraits and cavalry pieces. His influences include Pieter Saenredam's style (for church interiors), refined draughtsmanship and dispassionate attitude—in short, the qualities of "Dutch Classicism", akin to Vermeer. Berckheyde favoured views of monuments on large open squares, rather than giving up clarity for the sake of pictorial effect by painting views along canals as the other great Dutch cityscape painter, Jan van der Heyden, did. File:Berkheyde-Haarlem.jpg|The Grote Markt and Grote Kerk, Haarlem, in 1696, by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde File:Gerrit Berckheyde - The Town Hall of Amsterdam CAM CCF 44.jpg|The new City Hall of Amsterdam, 1670s File:Interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem 1673 Gerrit Berckheyde.jpg|Interior of the Grote Kerk, Haarlem, 1673 File:The Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal with the Flower Market, Amsterdam by Gerrit Berckheyde 1686.jpg|The Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal with the Flower Market, Amsterdam, 1686 File:Berckheyde, Gerrit Adriaensz.jpg|Church of Saint Cecilia, Cologne (c.1685), Oil on canvas, 20 3/8 x 24 1/4 in. (51.8 x 61.6 cm), Clark Art Institute File:German River Landscape with a Town (Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde) - Nationalmuseum - 18178.tif|The Castle of Emden (Emderburg) in East Frisia (Nationalmuseum in Stockholm) == References ==