page_title: Jan Gildemeester
section_title: Art gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Gildemeester / Art gallery
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context_page_description: Jan Gildemeester Jansz. was a Dutch art collector.
context_section_description: In 1794-95 Adriaan de Lelie painted Gildemeester amid his collection, flanked by Jurriaan Andriessen and the sailor Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff, with de Lelie himself in the background. By his death in 1799 Gildemeester had built up a collection of over 300 paintings, including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Meindert Hobbema, Pieter de Hoogh, Gabriel Metsu, Gerard ter Borch, Peter Paul Rubens and the French painter Jean-Baptiste Pillement. He also owned an extensive collection of drawings and prints. His works included Rembrandt's The ship builder Rijksen and his wife (now in the Royal Collection), Portrait of a Clergyman (1637) and The Healing of Old Tobias (1636). When his collection was auctioned in 1800, it raised 167,000 guilders, with the highest individual price being for Paulus Potter's The Milkmaid - cow painters like Potter and hare painters like Weenix were very popular at the end of the 18th century and the dawn of Romanticism. Several important paintings from the collection, such as Jan Asselijn's The Threatened Swan, ended up the Netherlands' national art gallery, which opened to the public in Huis ten Bosch but is now housed in the Rijksmuseum. Gildemeester was buried in the Lutheran church. His only heir was his niece Mary, who died in 1817.
caption: Huis De Neufville in the Gouden Bocht, home to his art gallery
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