active in Antwerp
1588 - 1629 Related Paintings of The Brunswick Monogrammist :. | The Annunciation | Brothel szene | Das Blumenmadchen | Brothel szene | Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel | Related Artists:
Marie Egnerpainted On the Danube near Vienna in 1912
Adriaen Van Diestwas born at the Hague in 1655. He was the son of Jeronymus van Diest, a painter of sea-pieces, by whom he was instructed in the art. When he was seventeen years of age he came to London, and was employed by Granville, Earl of Bath, for whom he painted several views and ruins in the west of England. He also painted portraits, but did not meet with much encouragement, although his pictures, particularly his landscapes, possess considerable merit; as a proof of which Horace Walpole states that there were seven pictures by Van Diest in Sir Peter Lely's collection. He etched several landscapes from his own designs, in a slight, masterly style. Van Diest died in London in 1704. Unfortunately for his reputation, he is generally known by his worst pictures, which are frequently found in old houses, on wainscots, or over doors, and are executed in a hasty manner, with much mountainous background. His better pictures have changed their name.
Osman Hamdy BeyTurkey, born 1842 - died 1910