Adriaen van Ostade
Dutch Golden Age genre painter
Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works. According to Arnold Houbraken, he and his brother were pupils of Frans Hals and like him, spent most of their lives in Haarlem. He thought they were "Lubekkers" by birth, though this has since found to be false. He was the eldest son of Jan Hendricx Ostade, a weaver from the hamlet of Ostade near Eindhoven. Although Adriaen and his brother Isaack were born in Haarlem, they adopted the name "van Ostade" as painters. According to the RKD, he became a pupil in 1627 of the portrait painter Frans Hals, at that time the master of Jan Miense Molenaer. In 1632 he is registered in Utrecht (where, like Jacob Duck, he was probably influenced by the village scenes of Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, which were popular in his day), but in 1634 he was back in Haarlem where he joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. At twenty-six he joined a company of the civic guard at Haarlem, and at twenty-eight he married. His wife died two years later in 1640. In 1657, "as a widower", he married Anna Ingels. He again became a widower in 1666. He opened a workshop and took on pupils. His notable pupils were Cornelis Pietersz Bega, Cornelis Dusart, Jan de Groot (1650-1726), Frans de Jongh, Michiel van Musscher, Isaac van Ostade, Evert Oudendijck, and Jan Steen.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Frans Hals Master
- Cornelis Pietersz Bega Student
- Cornelis Dusart Student
- Jan de Groot Student
- Frans de Jongh Master
- Isaac van Ostade Student
- Jan Steen Student
Fellow student
Influenced by
- Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot Source
Artworks by this artist
- Two peasants smoking, drinking and reading at an inn
- Ausgelassene Bauern im Wirtshaus after 1670
- Stehender Bauer von vorn, seine Hose aufknöpfend
- Peasants In A Tavern, Possibly A Depiction Of The Sense Of Hearing
- Standing boy from behind ca. 1655 - 1670
- Peasants In The Interior Of An Inn
- Peasants fighting in an inn mid 17th century
- A farmyard with children and peasants listening to a hurdy-gurdy player 1638
- Tavern Scene early 1660s
- L’Analyse 1666
- The Leg Operation
- Three farmers smoking and drinking in a tavern 1650
- Buying Fish 1669
- Portrait of a Boy c. 1648 - c. 1655
- Sketches of Peasants Playing Dice and Skating; Sketch of Boy on Sled
- Dancing Couple c. 1635
- Three farmers smoking and drinking in a tavern 1682
- Farmer with his hands behind his back 1640
- Court Of A Farm With Pump Well 1665-75
- Peasants Drinking in a Tavern early 1640s