Dirk Maas
Dirk Maas(12 September 1659 – 25 December 1717), was aDutch Golden Agelandscape painter.
Biography
[edit]Maas was born and died inHaarlem.According to Houbraken he was first a pupil ofHendrick Mommers,a Haarlem painter of vegetable market scenes, and then took lessons fromNicolaes Berchem,who he probably met through Mommers.[1]Maas became a follower of Berchem's Italianate landscape painting.[1]Eventually he took up withJan van Huchtenburg,whereupon he devoted himself to painting horses.[1]
According to the RKD he was first became a member of theHaarlem Guild of Saint Lukein 1678, and in 1690 he accompaniedWilliam III of England's army, where he painted theBattle of the Boynefirst-hand.[2]He was a pupil of Mommers, Berchem, and Huchtenburg who made prints, Italianate landscapes, andstaffagefor other painters.[2]In 1697 he became a member of theConfrerie Pictura,though he seems to have remained active in Haarlem also.[2]
References
[edit]- ^abc(in Dutch)Dirk Maas BiographyinDe groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen(1718) byArnold Houbraken,courtesy of theDigital library for Dutch literature
- ^abcDirk Maasin theRKD
- Watercolorof theSiege of Namur (1695)by Dirk Maas onGeheugen van Nederland
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