Arnold Houbraken
Biography1660 - 1719
About the artist
Arnold Houbraken, (born March 28, 1660, Dordrecht, Holland—died Oct. 14, 1719, Amsterdam), Dutch painter and art writer noted for his three-volume biographical study of Netherlandish painters, De groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen (1718–21). Houbraken was a competent and more academic painter, but his De Groote Schouburgh is the single most important source of information about the great Dutch painters of the 17th century.
His works are mostly mythological and biblical scenes but as well he has made portraits, landscapes.
His works are mostly mythological and biblical scenes but as well he has made portraits, landscapes.
