• Was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
• According to the
RKD, he was a student of Arnold Boonen in Amsterdam, but became a student of
Adriaen van der Werff in Rotterdam.
• In Rotterdam he married in 1708.
• In 1708 he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Middelburg.
• In 1718 he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura, where he became a popular painter.
• Much later he returned to teach at the drawing academy and had various students, including Jan Augustini, Louis de Monie, and Hendrik Pothoven.
• He left the Hague temporarily for 10 years in 1726, when he moved to Kassel to become court painter for William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel.
• In 1750 he is registered as back to the Hague where he became court painter to Marie Louise's son William IV, Prince of Orange.
• His painting of a lute player was used centuries later as a model for the Dutch 100 guilder note.
Philip van Dijk, Abraham dismissing Hagar the Egyptian and Ishmael, the son he had of the latter, c. 1708 - 1718
Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.
Philip van Dijk, Abraham dismissing Hagar the Egyptian and Ishmael, the son he had of the latter, c. 1708 - 1718
Philip van Dijk, Sarah introducing Hagar to Abraham, 1700 - 1725
Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.
