The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters [SEP] publisher
The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters
The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, or "De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen", as it was originally known in Dutch, is a series of artist biographies with engraved portraits written by the 18th-century painter Arnold Houbraken. It was published in three volumes as a sequel to Karel van Mander's own list of biographies known as the "Schilder-boeck". The first volume appeared in 1718, and was followed by the second volume in 1719, the year Houbraken
biographical sketches (1871–72), and afterwards the monograph "Martin Schongauer" (1881), a "Geschichte der holländischen Malerei" (History of Dutch painting, 1885), besides biographies of Dutch and Flemish painters in Dohme's "Kunst und Künstler" (Art and artists, 1876). He also edited dictionaries of artist biographies, and compiled "Rembrandt-Galerie" (1885), and translated Houbraken's "The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters" (original Dutch edition 1718).
- "Laura: