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Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh

Hendrik Martensz Sorgh
Portrait of Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh 001.jpg
Hendrik Martensz Sorgh
Born Hendrik Martensz
1610
Rotterdam
Died June 28, 1670(1670-06-28) (aged 60)
Rotterdam
Nationality Netherlands
Known for Painting
Movement Baroque seascapes

Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh (c. 1610 – buried June 28, 1670) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works.

Born in Rotterdam, Sorgh became a pupil of David Teniers the Younger and Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech. Sorgh painted mostly interiors with peasants. His kitchen interiors feature elaborate still lifes. He also painted market scenes, portraits, and marine and historical scenes. Sorgh's works include, for example, A Man Writing, Interior with Jacob and Esau, and A Kitchen.

He married Adriaantje Hollaer on 20 February 1633. She became famous in 1947 because of her marriage portrait which had been painted by Rembrandt and was pictured on the Dutch 100-guilder banknote, printed from 1947 - 1950. Through her sister, he was brother-in-law to his friend the painter Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn. Her portrait by Rembrandt was long considered a pendant companion to a portrait of him, but it is no longer certain since an 18th-century engraving of that portrait held the caption Nicholas Berchem. The engraved portrait of him in Arnold Houbraken's The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters was based on his self-portrait, currently in a private collection.

Interior scene by Sorgh

Marriage portrait of a man with a large black hat by Rembrandt's workshop, formerly thought to be Nicolaes Berchem, Hendrik Sorgh, and Carel Fabricius

Marriage portrait of his wife Adriaantje Hollaer, painted by Rembrandt's workshop, around the same time and considered a pendant to the man with the hat

An Interior Scene

Sailing in a strong vind

In 1659 he became headman of the Rotterdam Guild of St. Luke. His pupils were Jacobus Blauvoet, Abraham Diepraam, Cornelis Dorsman, Pieter Nijs, and Pieter Crijnse Volmarijn.


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