NEER, EGLON HENDRIK VAN DER

Amsterdam 1635/36–1703 Düsseldorf

Eglon van der Neer was the eldest son of the landscape painter Aert van der Neer, who was also his first teacher. Eglon, however, decided to become a figure painter and finished his education with Jacob van Loo (1614–1670). From 1655 to 1658 he was active in the principality of Orange in Southern France at the court of the Governor Friedrich van Dohna. Upon his return in 1658 to Amsterdam he married Maria Wagensvelt, the daughter of a well-to-do notary. By 1663 he had moved to Rotterdam and here became a sought-after painter of refined conversation pieces and portraits. He registered with the artist's confraternity Pictura in The Hague in 1671 without settling here. Van der Neer's first wife died in 1677 and three years lated he moved to Brussels where he married Marie du Chastel, daughter of the painter François du chastel and a painter herself. In 1687 van der Neer entered the service of Charles II of Spain but remained in the Southern Netherlands. Marie du Chastel died in 1692 and five years later Eglon married again, this time with Adriana Spielberg, another painter and a daughter of the former court painter at the Electoral court at Düsseldorf, Johannes Spilberg (1619–1690). In 1698 Eglon was appointed court painter to Johann Wilhelm the Elector Palatine, a post he held until his death in 1703. During the last years of his career he concentrated on painting extremely detailed landscapes, many of which are preserved in Munich's Alte Pinakothek.

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