Events

During the first part of the seventeenth century, the city of Haarlem maintained the lead in the development of the graphic arts and painting in Holland. By 1625, the situation changed and Amsterdam took over as the art center of the Netherlands. Haarlem however had many stellar artists who continued to paint and thrive in its rich environment. For this reason, the smaller city maintained its high status in the fields of landscape painting, portraiture, and still life. Supremely talented painters such as Frans Hals, Judith Leyster, Pieter Claesz., Jacob van Ruisdael, and others maintained studios and a strong patronage in Haarlem. The focus of this docent-led talk will be to document these and other key artists living in Haarlem, and reveal how they contributed to the artistic success of Holland during the Baroque period.