19 October 1864?C21 August 1915  Related Paintings of Thomas Pakenham :. | General Lake accepts General Humbert-s sword as a token of surrender at Ballinamuck | Wolfe Tone in the Uniform of a French Adjutant general as he apeared at his court-martial in Dublin | Charles James Fox,Leader of the Whig Opposition and Grattan-s most important ally in London | McCracken-s United and twentieth century portrait | Belfast Assembly Rooms |
Related Artists:
Bazille, Frdric
Studied under Charles Gleyre. French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1870
Pedro Sanchez
Spanish Early Renaissance Painter, active ca.1454-1468
Adriaen Van Diest
was 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.