All the oil paintings of EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
6553		Portrait of a Family fg	1667 Oil on canvas, 85 x 100 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
6554		Presentation in the Temple fh	1671 Oil on wood, 59 x 48,5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
6552		Prophet Eliseus and the Woman of Sunem (detail) dg	1664 Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
6551		Prophet Eliseus and the Woman of Sunem f	1664 Oil on canvas, 110 x 155 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
6555		Scholar with his Books fgh	1671 Oil on canvas, 64,5 x 49 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
6556		Vertumnus and Pomona dfg	1669 Oil on canvas, 127,5 x 103,5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1621-1674 Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was the son of the goldsmith Jan Pietersz. van den Eeckhout and 'a great friend' as well as a pupil of Rembrandt, according to Houbraken, who commented that van den Eeckhout painted in the style of his master throughout his career. This is certainly true of van den Eeckhout's (biblical) history paintings, but less so of either his portraits, which gradually displayed more Flemish elegance, or his genre pieces (from 1650), in which he followed various trends; he adapted his style to suit his subject with sensitive versatility. He was also a gifted colourist and an artist of great imagination, superior in both these respects to such better-known Rembrandt pupils as Ferdinand Bol and Nicolaes Maes. Moreover, he was extremely productive, and there is at least one dated painting for virtually every year between 1641 and 1674. In addition, he created a large body of drawings comprising histories, figures, landscapes and genre scenes executed in various media, including watercolour.