Hendrick van Vliet

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Hendrick van Vliet (1611/12–1675)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He is remembered mostly for his church interiors.
• He studied under his uncle Willem van der Vliet.
• He was admitted to the painters guild in Delft in 1632.
• Before him, architectural painting had been pioneered by Pieter Saenredam, who introduced innovative techniques of perspective.
• By mid century, architectural painting gained great popularity.
• Among the churches painted by Van Vliet are the Pieterskerk (Peter's Church) in Leiden, the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Delft, and the Oude Kerk (Old Church) in Delft (Van Vliet would be buried in the latter in 1675).
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Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft with the Tomb of Willem the Silent, 1662

Original, Sotheby`s, New York. Visited in 2020.

Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft with the Tomb of Willem the Silent, 1662

Hendrick van Vliet, Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delf, 1660

Original,MET.New York. Visited in 2017-2021.

Hendrick van Vliet, Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delf, 1660

Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, Interior of the Old Church (Oude Kerk) in Delft, around 1660-1670

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, Interior of the Old Church (Oude Kerk) in Delft, around 1660-1670

Attributed to Hendrick van Vliet, Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, 1655-1660

Original, The National Museum in Warsaw. Visited in 2021.

Attributed to Hendrick van Vliet, Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, 1655-1660

Attributed to Hendrick van Vliet, Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, 1655-1660

Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, The Interior of the Old Church at Delft, 1658

Original, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland. Visited in 2021.

Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, Interior of the Old Church in Delft, 1654

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, Interior of the Old Church in Delft, 1654

Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, Portrait of a 13-year-old Boy, 1635

Original, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Visited in 2022.

Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet, Portrait of a 13-year-old Boy, 1635