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Adriaen van Ostade · 1610–85
Adriaen van Ostade: 1610–1685
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Biography
Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 December 1610 – buried 2 May 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing the everyday life of ordinary men and women.
According to Arnold Houbraken, he and his brother were pupils of Frans Hals and like him, spent most of their lives in Haarlem. He thought they were "Lubekkers" by birth, though this has since found to be false.
He was the eldest son of Jan Hendricx Ostade, a weaver from the hamlet of Ostade near Eindhoven. Although Adriaen and his brother Isaack were born in Haarlem, they adopted the name "van Ostade" as painters. According to the RKD, he became a pupil in 1627 of the portrait painter Frans Hals, at that time the master of Jan Miense Molenaer. In 1632, he is registered in Utrecht (where, like Jacob Duck, he was probably influenced by the village scenes of Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, which were popular in his day), but in 1634 he was back in Haarlem where he joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.
Aged 26, he joined a company of the civic guard at Haarlem, and at twenty-eight he married. His wife died two years later in 1640. In 1657, "as a widower", he married Anna Ingels.
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- Frans Halseditorial inference
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- Frans Halseditorial inference
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- Isack van Ostadeeditorial inference
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- Cornelis Dusarteditorial inference
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- Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietricheditorial inference
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- Richard Brakenburgheditorial inference
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- Peter Fendieditorial inference
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- Cornelis Begaeditorial inference
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- Charles Émile Jacqueeditorial inference
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- Jan Steeneditorial inference
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- Jan Steeneditorial inference
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- Jan Miense Molenaereditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Adriaen van Ostade. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art85 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)56 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art55 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago23 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre12 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon11 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly7 recorded works
- Hermitage Museum6 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts6 recorded works
- Museo Nacional del Prado5 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris3 recorded works
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille3 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum3 recorded works
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna2 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen2 recorded works
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen2 recorded works
- Albertina1 recorded work
- Dulwich Picture Gallery1 recorded work
- Hallwyl Museum1 recorded work
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie1 recorded work
- musée de la chaussure — Romans1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Strasbourg1 recorded work
- Museum Bredius1 recorded work
- Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
