Artist

Bartholomeus van der Helst

Portrait of Bartholomeus van der Helst
Portrait of Bartholomeus van der Helst

Dutch, 1613–1670

Bartholomeus van der Helst was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 48 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings. Bartholomeus van der Helst was born in Haarlem.

Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613 – buried 16 December 1670) was a Dutch painter. Considered to be one of the leading portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, his elegant portraits gained him the patronage of Amsterdam's elite as well as the Stadtholder's circle. Besides portraits, van der Helst painted a few genre pictures as well as some biblical scenes and mythological subjects.

Works by Bartholomeus van der Helst

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