Harmanus Josephus Serin

สถานที่: Antwerp

เกิด: 1677

ความตาย: 1756

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Harmanus Serin was a painter born on 1677-06/1677-06-04 at Antwerp and deceased on 1756-02-27 in The Hague. He was a pupil of Simon van der Does and Mattheus Terwesten. He became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1711. He was first regent, and then five years later became director, of the Hague Drawing School from 1720-1734. He specialized in Italianate landscapes. He is best known today for his book of artist biographies, otherwise known as the 'Nieuw Schouburg'. He started his book with a tribute to his predecessors, most notably Karel van Mander and to Houbraken himself, noting however, that Houbraken included many insulting comments in his sketches that he felt were unnecessary. He starts his book with two painters from the Hague, Jan van Ravensteyn and Adriaen Hanneman. He then proceeded to write short sketches in birth year order up to 1680, ending Volume I with Gerard Jan Palthe. In Volume II he continued from 1680 with Jan van Huysum and ended in 1700 with the brothers Bernard and Matthijs Accama. His book contains many notes about Hague painters and the founding of the drawing academy in the Hague, where he lived and worked.