Johannes Voorhout [SEP] occupation
Johannes Voorhout
Johannes Voorhout (11 November 1647 in Uithoorn, North Holland – buried 25 August 1717 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography.
Voorhout was the son of the Amsterdam clock maker Cornelis Voorhout. Seeing that his son was better suited to drawing than the technical aspects of watch making, he apprenticed him to Constantijn Verhout in Gouda. This Verhout was a painter of modern history scenes, and after 6 years, he moved back to Amsterdam in 1664 to work in the workshop of Jan
for a gentleman named Mr Roeters. After he returned from Italy he became friends with Johannes Voorhout, with whom he practised drawing in a small group from a naked model. He told Voorhout that he had been very keen on saving money and only spent 30 guilders in his whole year in Italy, and that was the reason he couldn't spend much time with the Bentvueghels. This puzzled Houbraken, who wrote that he came from a good family and didn't need to save. In his biographical sketch of Johan van Neck