Painting
The best known Dutch painters of the 17th century include:
- Frans Hals (ca. 1583 – 1666) portraits, schutterstukken, regent groups, genre pieces (inns, figures)
- Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634) landscapes with snow
- Hendrick Terbruggen (1588–1629) historical and biblical paintings
- Willem Claeszoon Heda (1594–1680) still lifes
- Jan van Goyen (1596–1656) landscapes
- Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597–1665) church interiors, cityscapes
- Salomon van Ruysdael (ca. 1600 – 1670) landscapes
- Adriaen Brouwer (ca. 1605-1638) genre pieces (inns)
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) historical and biblical paintings, portraits, schutterstukken, regent groups, genre pieces (figures)
- Jan Lievens (1607–1674) historical and biblical paintings, portraits
- Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1684) genre scenes of peasant life
- Willem van de Velde, the elder (ca. 1611 – 1693) seascapes
- Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613–1670) portraits, schutterstukken, regent groups
- Jan Both (1615–1652) Italian landscapes
- Govert Flinck (1615–1660) historical and biblical paintings, portraits, schutterstukken
- Ferdinand Bol (1616–1680) historical and biblical paintings
- Emanuel de Witte (ca. 1617 – 1692) church interiors
- Gerard Terborch (1617–1681) portraits, genre pieces (family scenes)
- Philips Wouwermans (1619–1668) landscapes
- Albert Cuyp (1620–1691) Italian and Dutch landscapes
- Carel Fabritius (1622–1654) historical and biblical paintings, genre pieces (figures)
- Paulus Potter (1625–1654) animals in landscapes
- Jan Steen (1626–1679) genre pieces (inns, family scenes)
- Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael (ca. 1628-1682)
- Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) genre pieces (family scenes)
- Pieter de Hooch (1629–1683) genre pieces (family scenes)
- Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) cityscapes, genre pieces (family scenes)
- Nicolaes Maes (1634–1693) portraits, genre pieces (family scenes, figures)
- Meindert Hobbema (1638–1709) landscapes
For a more comprehensive listing, see the List of Dutch painters
Less famous painters from this period were
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“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)
“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this: in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”
—James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)