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Adriaen van de Venne

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Dutch painter

Adriaen van de Venne
Self-portrait engraved byWenceslas Hollar.
Born	Adriaen van de Venne 1589 Delft
Died	12 November 1662(1662-11-12) (aged 73) The Hague
Nationality	Dutch
Known for	Painting,Engraving,Emblem books
Movement	Baroque

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 – 12 November 1662), was a versatileDutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects, and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book illustrator, designer of political satires, and versifier.

Biography

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Van de Venne was born inDelft. According to Houbraken he learned Latin inLeiden. He learned to paint from the master goldsmith and painter Simon de Valk, and afterwards learned engraving from Jeronimus van Diest, a good painter ofgrisailles.^[1]^[2] He then moved toMiddelburg in 1614 where he was influenced byJan Brueghel the Elder andPieter Brueghel the Elder. His political paintingFishing for Souls, 1614, is an ironic commentary on the Catholic and Protestant troubles of theEighty Years War that split the border between the Northern from the Southern Netherlands along theSchelde river, very close to his home in Middleburg. When he painted this picture, theTwelve Years' Truce was in effect since 1609. The influence of Jan Brueghel the Elder is particularly evident in this allegory of religious fanaticism.^[3]

From 1620 until his death van de Venne made many grisailles andengravings ofgenre subjects, featuring peasants, beggars, thieves and fools as illustrations of current proverbs and sayings, mostly byJacob Cats.^[4] This work made him famous during his lifetime, and remained popular throughout the 18th century after his death.

Van de Venne also worked as a book illustrator and print designer. Van de Venne moved toThe Hague and joined theGuild of Saint Luke in 1625, taking the position of dean in 1637. He was a founding member ofConfrerie Pictura, a group bent on improving the independent status and social position of the artist in Dutch society by encouraging a more academic approach to the arts. He died in The Hague.

Gallery
A Dodo (1626)
Woman and a jester. (1630s)
An Amorous Peasant Couple Conversing (1631)
A Cavalier at His Dressing Table (1631)

Gallery
A Merry Company in an Arbor
Fools Have the Most Fun
Where There Are People Money May Be Made, 1652 (private collection)
Fishing for Souls (Zielenvisserij), 1614, a satirical allegory of Protestant-Catholic struggles for souls during theDutch Revolt (Rijksmuseum)
Landscape with figures
Winter

Notes

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^Cornelis de Bie,Het Gulden Cabinet 1661, p 235
^(in Dutch)Adriaan van de Venne biography inDe groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) byArnold Houbraken, courtesy of theDigital library for Dutch literature
^Noted, for instance, by Martin Royalton-Kisch, reviewingAdriaen Pietersz. Van de Venne (1589-1662), de grisailles met spreukbanden by Annelies Plokker (Leuven 1982), inThe Burlington Magazine128, No. 995 (February 1986:152.
^Noted in the preface by K. Porteman to Annelies Plokker,Adriaen Pietersz. Van de Venne (1589-1662), de grisailles met spreukbanden (1984).