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Jurgen Ovens (1623-1678)
Aliases: Jürgen Ovens; Juriaan Ovens; Juriaen Ovens; Jurian Ovens; Jurriaen Ovens
Professions: Painter; Etcher
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Enfants dans un parc
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Jürgen Ovens , Tönning, Schleswig-Holstein 1623 - 1678 Friedrichstadt A hermit saint oil on canvas
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JÜRGEN OVENS TÖNNING, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN 1623 - 1678 FRIEDRICHSTADT
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OVENS, JÜRGEN (Tönning 1623 - 1678 Friedrichstadt)
Jurgen Ovens Biography
(b tönning, schleswig-holstein, 1623; d friedrichstadt, 9 dec 1678). danish painter and draughtsman, active in the netherlands. according to houbraken, he was a pupil of rembrandt’s, and to this (mistaken) report he owes a great deal of his renown. it is possible that ovens was trained in holland, but he must also have been in flanders, possibly as a pupil of jan lievens, who had been residing in antwerp since 1635. ovens’s earliest dated work is a portrait of a man (1642; chicago, w. f. petersen priv. col.; see sumowski, 1983, p. 2275), which was inspired by van dyck rather than rembrandt. flemish influences are unmistakably present throughout ovens’s entire oeuvre, from his official state portraits to his representations of the virgin and his large altarpieces. relatively few works are known from his first ‘dutch’ period, but these confirm the fact that he must rapidly have made a name for himself in holland as a portrait painter. in the portrait of a woman in blue (1649; schleswig, schleswig-holstein. landesmus.) the wife of an amsterdam merchant is portrayed with her child as a flemish-style virgin and child. on 21 september 1652 the painter married maria martens in tönning and shortly afterwards moved to friedrichstadt, also in schleswig-holstein, as court painter to duke frederick iii of holstein-gottorp (reg 1616–59), for whom he had painted family portraits (untraced) in 1651 while still in amsterdam. in 1652 ovens painted a group portrait measuring nearly 5 m in width, princess hedwig eleonore von gottorp taking leave of her family (mariefred, gripsholm slott). ovens was present in sweden at the wedding of the princess to karl x gustav of sweden on 24 october 1654, an occasion that he also recorded in three paintings (stockholm, nmus., and drottningholm, slott). in the self-portrait of the artist painting his wife (st petersburg, hermitage), which also dates from this period, the painter regards the viewer with a self-assured expression. maria ovens was also the model for the portrait of a woman in fancy costume (1655; schleswig, schleswig-holstein. landesmus.), after which ovens made an etching in 1675.
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Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a red cloak, before a landscape
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Jurgen Ovens (Tonning, Schleswig-Holstein 1623-1678 Friedrichstadt)
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JURGEN OVENS (German 1623-1678): Semele gazing
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Jürgen Ovens (Tonning, Schleswig-Holstein 1623-1678 Friedrichstadt)
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Attributed to Jürgen Ovens , Tönning, Schleswig-Holstein 1623 - 1678 Friedrichstadt the prodigal son feeding his pigs Pen and brown ink, within brown ink framing lines; bears indistinct attribution on the verso : VAN DER BANK and several numbers in
