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==Biography==
==Biography==
[[File:Dirck Helmbreker Italianate landscape with peasants.JPG|left|thumb|250px|''An Italianate landscape with peasants making merry and pressing grapes.'']]
[[File:Dirck Helmbreker Italianate landscape with peasants.JPG|left|thumb|250px|''An Italianate landscape with peasants making merry and pressing grapes.'']]
According to Houbraken he lived from 1624 to 1694, but this has since been proven to be incorrect.<ref name=RKD>[http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=37287 Entry on Dirck Helmbreeker in RKD]</ref><ref name=Houbraken>{{Language icon|nl|Middle Dutch}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0236.htm Theodoor Helmbreker biography] in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by [[Arnold Houbraken]], courtesy of the [[Digital library for Dutch literature]]</ref> He was born in Haarlem and became a pupil of [[Pieter de Grebber]].<ref name="RKD"/> He traveled to [[Rome]] at a young age, where he remained until his death.<ref name=Houbraken/> His paintings belong to the group of artists known as the ''[[Bamboccianti]]'', or, as Houbraken writes, ''Bamboots'',<ref name=Houbraken/> which is a specialization by Northern artists in small-scale [[genre]] scenes in the manner of [[Pieter van Laer]] while in Rome.<ref name="slive">Slive, pp. 233–237.</ref> Helmbreker arrived in Italy in 1654, eventually settling in Rome by the end of the decade.<ref name="laureati" /> At the end of the 1670s he and the [[Southern Netherlands|Flemish]] painter [[Willem Reuter]] were members of a group known as the '[[Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon|Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon']].<ref name=nga>[http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artist-info.27834.html?artistId=27834&pageNumber=1 Biographical details of Willem Reuter] at the [[National Gallery of Art]]</ref> The Congregazione counted among its members many important artists who left their mark in Rome.
According to Houbraken he lived from 1624 to 1694, but this has since been proven to be incorrect.<ref name=RKD>[http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=37287 Entry on Dirck Helmbreeker in RKD]</ref><ref name=Houbraken>{{Link language|nl|Middle Dutch}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0236.htm Theodoor Helmbreker biography] in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by [[Arnold Houbraken]], courtesy of the [[Digital library for Dutch literature]]</ref> He was born in Haarlem and became a pupil of [[Pieter de Grebber]].<ref name="RKD"/> He traveled to [[Rome]] at a young age, where he remained until his death.<ref name=Houbraken/> His paintings belong to the group of artists known as the ''[[Bamboccianti]]'', or, as Houbraken writes, ''Bamboots'',<ref name=Houbraken/> which is a specialization by Northern artists in small-scale [[genre]] scenes in the manner of [[Pieter van Laer]] while in Rome.<ref name="slive">Slive, pp. 233–237.</ref> Helmbreker arrived in Italy in 1654, eventually settling in Rome by the end of the decade.<ref name="laureati" /> At the end of the 1670s he and the [[Southern Netherlands|Flemish]] painter [[Willem Reuter]] were members of a group known as the '[[Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon|Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon']].<ref name=nga>[http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artist-info.27834.html?artistId=27834&pageNumber=1 Biographical details of Willem Reuter] at the [[National Gallery of Art]]</ref> The Congregazione counted among its members many important artists who left their mark in Rome.


==Works==
==Works==
He was influenced by [[Sébastien Bourdon]].<ref name="RKD"/> His genre scenes, which were among the last generation of the ''Bamboccianti'',<ref name="slive" /> tended to be more [[Classicism|classical]] in inspiration than many their earlier low-life scenes.<ref name="laureati">Laureati</ref> Ultimately, these works found great success with Italian collectors.<ref name="laureati" /> In 1695 he was commissioned to paint the main altar piece of the [[Chiesa di San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi|Church of St. Julian of the Flemings]] in Rome.
He was influenced by [[Sébastien Bourdon]].<ref name="RKD"/> His genre scenes, which were among the last generation of the ''Bamboccianti'',<ref name="slive" /> tended to be more [[Classicism|classical]] in inspiration than many their earlier low-life scenes.<ref name="laureati">Laureati</ref> Ultimately, these works found great success with Italian collectors.<ref name="laureati" /> In 1695 he was commissioned to paint the main altar piece of the [[Chiesa di San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi|Church of St. Julian of the Flemings]] in Rome.


Houbraken described a painting from 1681 in the possession of Pieter Klok showing an Italian monastery with a group of poor people in the foreground with various handicaps being given soup from a large kettle ladled by a Franciscan monk. Helmbreker was very religious and donated often to the poor of Rome.<ref name=Houbraken/>
Houbraken described a painting from 1681 in the possession of Pieter Klok showing an Italian monastery with a group of poor people in the foreground with various handicaps being given soup from a large kettle ladled by a Franciscan monk. Helmbreker was very religious and donated often to the poor of Rome.<ref name=Houbraken/>
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Dirck Helmbreker
Selfportrait.
Born
Dirck Helmbreker

1633
Died1696 (aged 62–63)
NationalityNetherlands
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Dirck Helmbreker, Theodor Helmbreeker, or Teodoro Elembrech (1633–1696) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Italianate landscapes.

Biography

An Italianate landscape with peasants making merry and pressing grapes.

According to Houbraken he lived from 1624 to 1694, but this has since been proven to be incorrect.[1][2] He was born in Haarlem and became a pupil of Pieter de Grebber.[1] He traveled to Rome at a young age, where he remained until his death.[2] His paintings belong to the group of artists known as the Bamboccianti, or, as Houbraken writes, Bamboots,[2] which is a specialization by Northern artists in small-scale genre scenes in the manner of Pieter van Laer while in Rome.[3] Helmbreker arrived in Italy in 1654, eventually settling in Rome by the end of the decade.[4] At the end of the 1670s he and the Flemish painter Willem Reuter were members of a group known as the 'Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon'.[5] The Congregazione counted among its members many important artists who left their mark in Rome.

Works

He was influenced by Sébastien Bourdon.[1] His genre scenes, which were among the last generation of the Bamboccianti,[3] tended to be more classical in inspiration than many their earlier low-life scenes.[4] Ultimately, these works found great success with Italian collectors.[4] In 1695 he was commissioned to paint the main altar piece of the Church of St. Julian of the Flemings in Rome.

Houbraken described a painting from 1681 in the possession of Pieter Klok showing an Italian monastery with a group of poor people in the foreground with various handicaps being given soup from a large kettle ladled by a Franciscan monk. Helmbreker was very religious and donated often to the poor of Rome.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Entry on Dirck Helmbreeker in RKD
  2. ^ a b c d Template:Link language Theodoor Helmbreker biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  3. ^ a b Slive, pp. 233–237.
  4. ^ a b c Laureati
  5. ^ Biographical details of Willem Reuter at the National Gallery of Art

Bibliography

  • Laura Laureati, "Helmbreker [Elembrech; Helmbreecker], Dirck [Teodoro; Theodoor; Theodor]," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [October 29, 2007].
  • Slive, Seymour (1995). Dutch Painting 1600-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press - Pelican history of Art. ISBN 0-300-06418-7.

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