A Church Interior, probably the Oude Kerk, Delft - Rafael Valls

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-150537

Hendrick van Vliet began his career as a pupil of his uncle Willem van Vliet in Delft and later was apprenticed to the portrait painter Michel van Miereveldt. In 1632 he was elected a member of the Guild in Delft. His early works tended to be portraits as well as some genre scenes, often painted in candlelit settings. In around 1651 van Vliet turned his hand to painting church interiors. By 1654 he had a virtual monopoly over the genre in Delft as fellow native perspective painters Gerard Houckgeest and Emanuel de Witte (who greatly influenced van Vliet) had departed the city. Most of van Vliet's church pictures represent the interiors of the Oude or the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft.