Reyer Jacobs van Blommendael (1628 - 1675)

Dutch painter

Overview | Works (4)
     


Timeline
27 June 1628, baptized in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, as son of Jacob Reijersz. (bleacher) and Grietje Jansdr.

1638, father owns linen bleachery near Bloemendaal.

October 1657, authorises Lambert Jansz. to collect money from an auction of paintings.

2 May 1658, buys large house on the corner of the St Jansstraat and the Begijnhof in Haarlem from Philips Wouwerman.

20 February 1663, appraises together with Cornelis Simonsz. van der Schalcke the estate of the Haarlem textile merchant Johan Bardoel.

14 March 1663, enters the Guild of St Luke in Haarlem.

28 January 1669, sells bleachery of his deceased father.

10 March 1675, his sister has her will written, in which Reyer is mentioned as living in The Hague.

23 November 1675, buried in the family grave in the Grote Kerk in Haarlem.

Catalogues

Books with an entry on Reyer Jacobs van Blommendael
 P. Biesboer
Collections of paintings in Haarlem, 1572-1745
Los Angeles, 2001
 

Articles on Reyer Jacobs van Blommendael
J. Goudstikker, Een schilderij van R. van Blommendal, in Oud Holland, 44, 1927 pp. 155-158
 

Articles with substantial mentioning of Reyer Jacobs van Blommendael
Vitale Bloch, Haarlemer Klassizisten, in Oud Holland, 57, 1940 pp. 14-21
 

Exhibitions:
Exhibitions with works by Reyer Jacobs van Blommendael:
1999     Dutch classicism in seventeenth-century painting
 

Born:   1628
   Amsterdam
Died:   1675
   The Hague or Haarlem
ULAN:   500031358