Battle for a Castle
Jan van Huchtenburgh (Haarlem 1647 - Amsterdam 1733)
Lot-No. 344
Proceeds : 5.700 €
Oil/canvas. 71 x 59 cm. Lo. ri. sign. JHugthenburgh. Min. pigment losses. - Dutch battle painter, student of Thomas Wyck. After a stay in Paris at the Gobelin manufactory, he worked in Haarlem. From 1708 H. was a battle chronicler in the service of the Austrian field marshal Prince Eugene, later he worked at the court of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz, last in The Hague. Mus.: Paris (Louvre), Vienna (Kunsthist. Mus. u.a.), Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), London (Nat. Gall.), The Hague (Mauritshuis), Dresden, Munich, Copenhagen a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bernt a. others.
Jan van Huchtenburgh: Battle for a Castle
Jan van Huchtenburgh (Haarlem 1647 - Amsterdam 1733)
Battle for a Castle
Lot-No. 344
Proceeds : 5.700 €
Oil/canvas. 71 x 59 cm. Lo. ri. sign. JHugthenburgh. Min. pigment losses. - Dutch battle painter, student of Thomas Wyck. After a stay in Paris at the Gobelin manufactory, he worked in Haarlem. From 1708 H. was a battle chronicler in the service of the Austrian field marshal Prince Eugene, later he worked at the court of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz, last in The Hague. Mus.: Paris (Louvre), Vienna (Kunsthist. Mus. u.a.), Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), London (Nat. Gall.), The Hague (Mauritshuis), Dresden, Munich, Copenhagen a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bernt a. others.
