Dutch painter

The Hague 1631 – in or after 1677 The Hague

 

His first name is sometimes spelt Jeronimus or Jeronymus.

 

(As to Hieronymus I van Diest: nothing is known about him, except for the mention that he had been the second teacher of Adriaen Pietersz. Van de Venne.)

 

Marine painter.

 

Son and pupil of Willem Hermansz. van Diest  (The Hague?, before 1610 – in or after 1668 The Hague), who was also a marine painter. Both painted more or less the same subjects (sea views with calm or stormy waters or with war ships, beach and river views) and both worked their whole life in The Hague. While Willem mostly signed his paintings in full, Hieronymus used monograms (“IVD” and “JVD”) and rarely dated his works.

Willem had probably been a pupil of Jan Porcellis, then fell under the influence of Jan van Goyen and later of Simon de Vliegher.

Hieronymus II was in his turn also influenced by Jan van Goyen in his early river views of Dordrecht and by Hendrick Dubbels.

 

Hieronymus II had a son from his first marriage, Adriaen (1655 – 1704), who from the age of seventeen onwards was active in England as a landscape and marine painter.

 

Hieronymus II was in 1672 and in 1673 one of the three deans of the Painter’s Guild of Saint Luke in The Hague.

 

Paintings by Hieronymus II van Diest may also be found at the Fine Arts Museum of Budapest, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf and at the Lichtenstein Museum in Vienna. 

 

 

Because it is a typical 17th century Dutch marine painting with a huge sky.Typical of van Diest’s technique is the way he  highlightens the top of the waves.