Teerlink, Cornelis and Andries Vermeulen

Written by L.C.Geerts
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Famous Dutch Painters from Dordrecht, Ancient Capital of Holland

Part 24

57. Abraham Teerlink
58. Cornelis Vermeulen
59.Andries Vermeulen

Note : Please do not email me with technical questions about paintings and their age and origin because I am not an expert but I only have gathered information about the Painters from the Netherlands and specially from Dordrecht.

Dordrecht is not only known as the oldest city and ancient capital of Holland but also for the many famous painters who were born or lived in Dordrecht during the late Middle ages and later centuries.

On the next pages you can find many works from these famous painters who were responsible for many styles of paintings and they immortalized the daily life and landscapes in the 15th to 19th century. Most of their masterpieces are nowadays part of collections in museums all over the world and of which many can be seen in the local Dordrechts Museum.

Abraham Teerlink

Dordrecht 1776 - Rome 1857

Teerlink, although born a Dutchman, his work was of French style. In the late eighteenth early nineteenth century, the low lands subject to the French government. Many young Dutch artists departure to France for their artistic training. Also Teerlink went to France with two landscape painters. Later he would be a student of Arie Lamme, the grandfather of Ary Scheffer. In 1806 he worked in the studio of Jacques Louis David, one of the most important artists of that time. A year later he received a scholarship to study in Rome where he for the rest of his life will continue to live. He plays the role of friend and host for a new generation of Dutch painters to the wonders of Italy shows. In his work is clear to see the influence of David and Valenciennes. He gives more preference to naturalism than to the romantic ideal. He remains a respected and popular teacher, but at the end of his life his work is considered as old-fashioned.

View of a quarry at Belleville

Teerlink, Abraham
Oil on canvas 96 x 130,5 cm
Dordrechts museum

Italia coastal landscape

Teerlink, Abraham
Paper 36,7 x 49,9 cm
Dordrechts museum

Snowstorm

Teerlink, Abraham 1803
Pencil and brush 22,1 x 31,4 cm
Dordrechts museum

Roman Landscape

Abraham Teerlink
Oil on canvas 101 x 141 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

River Landscape with cattle in emerging Sun

Abraham Teerlink 1803
Pen in brown, brush in brown and watercolor, pencil 35.4 x 46.9 cm
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

By the koek-en-zopie

Abraham Teerlink, 1806
Pencil, ink and watercolor on paper 42 x 57 cm
Private collection

An Italianate river landscape with travelers on a track

Abraham Teerlink
Oil on panel 37.5 x 50.2 cm
Private collection

View on the waterfall of Marmore

Abraham Teerlink
Oil on canvas 55 x 67.5 cm
Private collection

Fishermen by a Bridge over a Ditch, cows and a horseman on a rise nearby on the old mount

Abraham Teerlink
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor, grey ink framing lines 23,4 x 34,4 cm
Private collection

A figure on a bridge by a house, a tree in the foreground

Abraham Teerlink, 1801
Pencil, pen and brown and grey ink, grey wash, watermark, black ink framing lines 20,1 x 25,1 cm
Private collection

An Italianate landscape with travelers and peasants on a mountain track, others praying in front of a chapel beyond

Abraham Teerlink, 1815
Oil on canvas 75.4 x 100.9 cm
Private collection

In the Roman Campagna

Abraham Teerlink, 1840
Oil on canvas 43 x 57 cm
Private collection

Buffaloes in the Roman Campagna at sunset with cattle, shepherds and travelers by a ruined wall beyond

Abraham Teerlink
Oil on canvas 75 x 100 cm
Private collection

Herdsmen watering their cattle by a wooded road

Abraham Teerlink
Pen and brown ink, watercolour, framed 51,5 x 42,4 cm
Private collection

A view of cava dei Tirreni near Salerno, Italy

Abraham Teerlink
Oil on canvas 56 x 78 cm
Private collection

Cornelis Vermeulen

Dordrecht 1732 - Dordrecht 1813

Painter and dealer in Dordrecht, Cornelis Vermeulen was known for his copies from the Dutch painters of the seventeenth century. It copies and Cuyp, Verschuir, van de Velde, Dujardin, Steen, van Ostade, Wouwerman, Miers, Lingelbach, Schouwman. More than two hundred paintings were included in the sale of his collection in Dordrecht, on 6 April 1813. Today we know that his evil reappears gradually. A pair of landscapes is preserved in Karlsruhe, one in Cambridge and a landscape like Isaac van Ostade in the Dordrechts Museum.

Peasants and cattle in an Italianate landscape

Cornelis Vermeulen
Oil on canvas 47.3 x 64.5 cm

The distribution of hay in winter

Cornelis Vermeulen
Oil on panel 20,1 x 25,5 cm
Private collection

A vanitas still life of a skull, a guttering candle, a tortoiseshell mirror, a book, a statue and a pack of cards

Cornelis Vermeulen (after François Duquesnoy, 1688)
Oil on canvas 58.4 x 47.3 cm
Private collection

Width riverscape with horsemen, and flock

Cornelis Vermeulen
Oil on panel 24 x 30 cm
Private collection

Andries Vermeulen

Dordrecht 1763 - Dordrecht 1814

Andries Vermeulen was born in Dordrecht on 23 March 1763. He was trained by his father Cornelis, himself a landscape painter and art dealer who is mainly known for his copies after famous masters. Andries specialized in landscapes after seventeenth-century Dutch models. He originally painted landscapes in the manner of Meindert Hobbema, but later preferred to paint ice scenes that resemble the work of Isack van Ostade in style, for which he is chiefly known. He also created marine paintings and summer landscapes, and made drawings after Albert Cuyp. He worked for some time in Amsterdam, where he died on 6 July 1814.

Winter Scene with Skaters

Attributed to Andries Vermeulen, previous attributions to his father Cornelis Vermeulen c. 1783
Oil on panel 16 x 22 cm
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum(Warwick District Council)

The work is clearly inspired by Dutch winter landscapes of the seventeenth century, although the costumes worn by the figures here are clearly those of a later period. The painting has a slightly naive charm, but there is a certain flatness, and the reflections of the skaters on the ice is rather unconvincing. The attribution to Andries Vermeulen is not wholly beyond doubt.

A Scene on the Ice

Andries Vermeulen, c. 1800
Oil on panel 39.8 x 49 cm
The National Gallery, London

Vermeulen's landscapes are based upon 17th-century precedents. This type of composition is based on the work of Isack van Ostade, for example his 'Winter Scene' in the National Gallery's Collection. A similar work by the artist (Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut) is signed and dated 1800.