Identifier: dictionaryofpain05brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n 1663, and was a scholar of his father and JanWijck. In 1686 he came to England, where hepainted hunting subjects and horse-races. Someof these are respectable, and show artistic know-ledge, but others are mere house decorating.Wainscot panels by .him are occasionally to befound in old houses. On his return to Haarlem hecontinued to paint hunting-pieces, and occasionallyskirmishes. He acquired wealth by his art, andtowards the end of his life combined it with themanufacture of silk. He died at Haarlem in1721. VAN DER VINNE, Laurens, the elder, the sonof Vincent Laurenszoon van der Vinne, was bomat Haarlem in 1658, and was instructed by hisfather, whose style he attempted to follow. Henever rose above mediocrity, and his principalmerit consisted in the imitative painting of flowersand plants, on which he was much employed bythe botanists of his time. He painted landscapesand cattle, in the manner of Berchem, under whomhe had studied, and also engraved. He entered ADRIAAN VAN DER WERFF
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Han fstangl photo) THE DEPARTURE OF HAGAR (Dresden Gallery PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. the Guild at Haarlem in 1685, and died in thesame city in 1729. VAN DER V1NNE, Vincent, was the son of JanLaurenszoon van der Vinne, and was born at Haar-lem in 1736. During his youth he painted fruitand flower pieces, but afterwards adopted land-scape and cattle painting. lie was much employedin decorating rooms with designs on canvas. Healso engraved, and painted both original picturesand copies in water-colour. He was for a whiledirector of the Art Collection in the TeylerMuseum, and also carried on a trade in works ofart. He died at Haarlem in 1811. There is alandscape by him in the Haarlem Museum. VAN DER VINNE, Vincent Laurenszoon, wasborn at Haarlem in 1629. In 1647 he was placedunder the tuition of Frans Hals. In 1649 heentered the Guild, and in 1652-3 travelled inGermany, Switzerland, and France, residing sometime in Paris ; and wherever he went, his abilityinsured him employment. In 1657 he re

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