Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh

Born in Rotterdam, Sorgh became a pupil of David Teniers the Younger and Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech.[1] Sorgh painted mostly interiors with peasants. His kitchen interiors feature elaborate still lifes. He also painted market scenes, portraits, and marine and historical scenes. Sorgh's works include, for example, A Man Writing, Interior with Jacob and Esau, and A Kitchen.

He married Adriaantje Hollaer on 20 February 1633. She became famous in 1947 because of her marriage portrait which had been painted by Rembrandt and was pictured on the Dutch 100-guilder banknote, printed from 1947 - 1950. Through her sister, he was brother-in-law to his friend the painter Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn.[2] Her portrait by Rembrandt was long considered a pendant companion to a portrait of him, but it is no longer certain since an 18th-century engraving of that portrait held the caption Nicholas Berchem.[3] The engraved portrait of him in Arnold Houbraken's The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters was based on his self-portrait, currently in a private collection.[4]

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  Interior scene by Sorgh
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  Marriage portrait of a man with a large black hat by Rembrandt's workshop, formerly thought to be Nicolaes Berchem, Hendrik Sorgh, and Carel Fabricius
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  Marriage portrait of his wife Adriaantje Hollaer, painted by Rembrandt's workshop, around the same time and considered a pendant to the man with the hat
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  An Interior Scene
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  Sailing in a strong vind

In 1659 he became headman of the Rotterdam Guild of St. Luke.[2] His pupils were Jacobus Blauvoet, Abraham Diepraam, Cornelis Dorsman, Pieter Nijs, and Pieter Crijnse Volmarijn.[2]

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There is also a painting by Hendrick Sorgh in the Hunterian Art Gallery ("Interior with Card Players") in Glasgow, Scotland.

• Works and literature on Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh
• Vermeer and The Delft School, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh (see index)
• The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh (cat. no. 5)