Search instructions
View alphabetical lists of all artists who are either Scottish or whose works are associated with Scotland currently featured on the site.
Select the initial of the artist's name that you are looking for. Scroll down the list until you find the name, and select it for more information about the artist and his or her work.
Search Tip
Artists are organised by their most commonly-used names. This is usually but not always their surname.
Search results
- Willem van Honthorst
- James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, 1612 - 1650. Royalist
- PG 998
- Scottish Art
Willem van Honthorst (Dutch, 1594 - 1666)
Portrait painter Willem van Honthorst was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He studied under Abraham Bloemaert and was also taught by his elder brother, known as Gerrit or Gerard. In 1643 Willem married Sophia van Honthorst in The Hague. He left for Berlin in 1646 to become court painter to Louise-Henriette, daughter of Prince Frederick Henry and wife of the elector Frederick II of Brandenburg. He remained in Germany until 1664, but spent his final years in his native Utrecht. Willem van Honthorst painted portraits of many eminent and royal sitters, including Dutch princes Frederick Henry and William II. Many of Willem?s works have previously been attributed to his brother because of the similarity of their signatures.
