Epochs · Dutch Republic
Dutch Golden Age
c. 1600 – 1700
Tour this roomYour taste…
In a Protestant republic with few church commissions, painters sold to merchants and burghers on an open market. The result was a boom in portraits, landscapes, still lifes and quiet domestic scenes, painted with extraordinary attention to light as it falls through a window onto everyday things.
Hallmarks
- An open art market instead of church patronage
- Genre scenes of daily life
- Still life and vanitas
- Soft window light
Artists here
- Frans Hals · c. 1582 – 1666
- Willem Claesz. Heda · c. 1594 – c. 1680
- Rembrandt van Rijn · 1606 – 1669
- Carel Fabritius · 1622 – 1654
- Johannes Vermeer · 1632 – 1675
