Workshop of Job Berckheyde
Dutch Republic · Dutch Golden Age painting
The story
'Workshop of Job Berckheyde' is the label for a painting that a museum believes came out of his studio in Haarlem, made in his manner by someone working with him, but not by his own hand.
Berckheyde had first been apprenticed to a bookbinder before he turned to painting, and he joined the Haarlem painters' guild in 1654. In the late 1650s he and his younger brother Gerrit, whom he had trained, worked in Cologne, Bonn, Mannheim and Heidelberg, and the Elector Palatine, the ruler at Heidelberg, rewarded the brothers with a gold chain and medal. By about 1660 both were back in Haarlem, painting views of their own town.
The Mauritshuis in The Hague uses this label for a small panel of a Dutch canal, possibly the Oude Gracht in Haarlem, dated to around 1666.
