page_title: Old Master
section_title: Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting
hierarchical_section_title: Old Master / List of the most important Old Master painters / Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting
context_page_description: In art history, "Old Master" refers to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print made by an artist in the same period. The term "old master drawing" is used in the same way.
  In theory, "Old Master" applies only to artists who were fully trained, were Masters of their local artists' guild, and worked independently, but in practice, paintings produced by pupils or workshops are often included in the scope of the term. Therefore, beyond a certain level of competence, date rather than quality is the criterion for using the term.
context_section_description: Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639)
  Frans Snyders (Flemish, 1578–1657), master of Baroque still life from the Antwerp School
  Frans Hals (Flemish-born Dutch, 1580–1666), one of the greatest post-Renaissance portraitists
  Pieter Lastman (Dutch, 1583–1633)
  Hendrick Terbrugghen (Dutch, 1588–1629), Dutch Realist genre painter and a leading member of the Utrecht Caravaggisti
  Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590–1636)
  Dirck van Baburen (Dutch, 1595–1624)
  Matthias Stom (Dutch, 1600–1652)
  Adriaen Brouwer (Flemish, c. 1605–1638), noted for his tavern-based genre paintings
  Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), history painting, portraits, etchings
  Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607–1674)
  Jacob Adriaensz Backer (Dutch, 1608–1651)
  Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616–1680)
  Jan Havickszoon Steen (Dutch, 1625–1679), Leiden School, tavern genre scenes
  Jan Davidsz de Heem (Dutch, 1609–1683), still-life artist of the Utrecht/Antwerp School
  David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610–1690), Dutch Realist known for his peasant/guardroom scenes
  Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1685), peasant scene artist of the Haarlem School
  Govert Flinck (Dutch, 1615–1660)
  Gerrit Dou (Dutch, 1613–1675)
  Frans van Mieris the Elder (Dutch, 1635–1681)
  Gerard Terborch (Dutch, 1617–1681), Haarlem School genre painter
  Willem Kalf (Dutch, 1619–1693), noted for still-life pictures
  Albert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620–1691), Dordrecht School landscape painter
  Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dutch, 1627–1678), genre painter
  Jan de Bray (Dutch, 1627–1697)
  Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628–1682), Haarlem School landscape artist
  Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667), intimate small-scale genre scenes
  Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629–1683), Delft School of Dutch genre painting
  Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675), Delft School Dutch genre painter, little-known in his own lifetime
  Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638–1709)
  Aert de Gelder (Dutch, 1645–1727)
  Adriaen van der Werff (Dutch, 1659–1722)
  Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664–1750), important female flower painter from Amsterdam
caption: Yonker Ramp and his sweetheart by Frans Hals, 1623
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