Artist: Hendrick Van Balen (1575 - 1632)
Nationality: Flemish
Movement: Flemish School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Well-educated under the encouragement of this merchant father, Hendrik van Balen was either trained by an Italian painter in Antwerp of absorbed that influence on his travels in Italy from 1595 to 1600. Van Balen became a master at the Guild of St. Luke in 1592 and began teaching regularly ten years later. He taught many talented pupils such as Anthony van Dyck and Frans Snyder. Known for his cabinet pictures and large altarpieces, Van Balen usually favored allegorical and mythological subjects. In addition, he painted small nudes and landscapes on copper or oak.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Portrait of Hendrick van Balen
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Hendrick van Balen the Elder - Pan pursuing Syrinx after 1615 oil on copper The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Wenceslas Hollar, Johannes van Balen, 17th century
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Wenceslas Hollar, Portrait of Johannes van Balen, 17th century
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Wenceslas Hollar, Johannes van Balen, 17th century
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Wenceslas Hollar, Johannes van Balen, (after his painted self-portrait), 17th century
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Paul Pontius, Hendrik von Balen, (after van Dyck"s Iconographia), 17th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Landscape with Ceres (Allegory of Earth)
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Hendrick Terbruggen, The Lute Player, 16th - 17th century
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Hendrick Dirk Kruseman Van Elten, Old Mill on the Creek, 1883
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A Kitchen Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh (Dutch, 1609-11–1670)Oil on wood; 20 1/2 x 17 3/8 in.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Hendrick Terbrugghen Title: The Gamblers Date: 1623 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.33 x
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Hendrik Van Balen - The Trinity c. 1620 oil on wood Cleveland Museum of Art Flemish
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Hendrik I van Balen - Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1595 oil on copper The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Hendrick Dirk Kruseman Van Elten, On the Housatonic, plate 17 in the book, Choice Etchings (London: Alexander Strahan, 1887), 1887
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Hendrik I van Balen - Judgement of Paris n.d. oil on copper The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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A Renaissance Portico with Elegant Figures, ca. 1615 Hendrick van Steenwyck II (Flemish, born about
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Bust of an Angel
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Bacchante with an Ape
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Portrait of a Man
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, 1660 Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet (Dutch, 1611-12–1675)Oil on canvas;
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Hendrick Avercamp - A Scene on the Ice c. 1625 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Dutch
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Hendrick Terbruggen - A Boy Violinist n.d. oil on canvas Dayton Arts Institute Dutch
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Hendrick ter Brugghen - The Gamblers 1623 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Dutch
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Hendrick ter Brugghen - The Concert c. 1626 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Hendrick Maertensz Sorgh - Still Life 1655-65 oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Dutch
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Episode from the Story of Granida and Daifilo
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Hendrick Goltzius - Nox, Goddess of Night c. 1588-90 chiaroscuro woodcut The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Dutch
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Hendrick Heerschop - The Doctor's Visit c. 1660 oil on panel Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Dutch
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Hendrick Terbrugghen - Old Man Writing by Candlelight c. 1627 oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art Dutch
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Hendrick ter Brugghen - A Man playing a Lute 1624 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Hendrick ter Brugghen - Heraclitus (or St. Jerome) c. 1621 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Dutch
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Hendrick Avercamp - A Scene on the Ice near a Town c. 1615 oil on oak The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Hendrick de Clerck - Venus and Adonis c. 1600 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art Flemish
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Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617 The Farnese Hercules about 1592-93 Engraving 41 x 29.2 cm (16
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Jan Hendrick Fredricks - Basket of Fruit n.d. oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum
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Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617 Susanna and the Elders 1615 Oil on canvas 138 x 104
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Crypt of a Church with Two Men Sleeping
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Hendrick Dubbels - Shipping Becalmed Offshore c. 1660-1670 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Hendrick ter Brugghen - Jacob reproaching Laban 1627 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (4)
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Fotomuseum, Winterthur: Remake Berlin: CleggandGuttmann, Astrid Klein, Remy Markowitsch, Boris Mikhailov, Juergen Teller, Frank Thiel, Celine van Balen and Stephen Wilks
What is BerlinNULL One thing is certain: today's Berlin can only be described as a collection of diverse phenomena. The words I am a Berliner, uttered by John F. Kennedy in 1963, are no longer valid; at best, they would have to have been ...
Art Institute of Chicago: In Sight: Contemporary Dutch Photography from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Alongside this core of seven photographers, the exhibition samples the work of others-especially those of the younger generation-who have shown themselves inspired anew through various genres and approaches such as the portrait, landscape, social ...
Museum of New Art: Going Dutch: New Photography from the Netherlands
Transformation and mutation are some of the central themes in much of this work, depicting dynamic moments where time seems to have stopped still. Many of the photographs brought together in the museum exhibition GOING DUTCH were taken in b...
Bonnefanten Museum: The Rijksmuseum Comes to Maastricht: Works from the Southern Netherlands on Loan
Next year, the current loan scheme will be extended further due to the ongoing refurbishment of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which as a result will only be able to exhibit the highlights of 17th century art from the Northern Netherlands. ...

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