Trained as a silversmith, Dirck van Hoogstraten has always stood in the shadow of his famous son Samuel (1627–1678), pupil of Rembrandt and author of an important treatise on painting. This book puts the father in the spotlight for the first time.
Something of Dirck’s life was known from Arnold Houbraken‘s eighteenth-century biography, but his paintings caught the attention of art historians only in the nineteenth century. The authors reconstruct his career in Dordrecht from archival sources and show how, from 1632 onward, he drew inspiration from history painters, above all Rembrandt. The relationship between father and son is discussed in detail.
The catalogue raisonné comprises nine paintings, nine prints and three drawings, together with works whose attribution cannot be confirmed; nothing of his silverwork survives. Michiel Roscam Abbing has long researched the Van Hoogstraten family in the archives, and Robert Schillemans is the retired curator of Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder in Amsterdam. The book was published to mark the exhibition The Illusionist: Samuel van Hoogstraten at the Rembrandt House Museum in 2025.
A natural companion to the Samuel van Hoogstraten catalog, for students and collectors of Dutch Golden Age painting.
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