Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
1621–1674

Selected artwork
PORTRAIT D'UN JEUNE GARCON
1653
musée des beaux-arts — Lille
Other names (175)
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Biography
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (19 August 1621 – 29 September 1674) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.
Gerbrand was born in Amsterdam, the son of a jeweller, a Mennonite who fled after 1585 from Antwerp to the north. In 1631 his mother died. His father's second wife was Cornelia Dedel, the daughter of a founder of the Delft chamber of the Dutch East India Company.
Arnold Houbraken records Van den Eeckhout was a pupil of Rembrandt. A fellow pupil to Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes and Govert Flinck, but regarded as inferior to them in skill and experience; he soon assumed Rembrandt's manner with such success that his pictures were confused with those of his master.
Eeckhout does not merely copy the subjects; he also takes the shapes, the figures, the Jewish dress and the pictorial effects of his master. It is difficult to form an exact judgment of Eeckhout's qualities at the outset of his career. His earliest pieces are probably those in which he more faithfully reproduced Rembrandt's peculiarities.
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Influenced by
- Rembrandt van Rijneditorial inference
Evidence
Wikidata assertion retained for review; its references, if supplied, have not been independently verified. Teaching is recorded separately and does not itself establish artistic influence.
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art8 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille3 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum3 recorded works
- Musée de Grenoble2 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)2 recorded works
- Accademia Carrara1 recorded work
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Strasbourg1 recorded work
- musée municipal — La Roche-sur-Yon1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Art1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
- Walters Art Museum1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Rijksmuseum: independently verified selected paintings
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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