# HELST, Bartholomeus van der [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1613–1670 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Dutch painter. he was born in Haarlem, settled in Amsterdam in 1636, and in the 1640s took over from Rembrandt as the most popular portraitist in the city, his detailed, tasteful, and slightly flattering likenesses appealing more to the fashionable burghers than the master's work, which was becoming more individual and introspective. Van der Helst's influence during his lifetime was great. For example, Rembrandt's talented pupils Bol and Flinck abandoned the style of their master in order to follow his more popular manner. His reputation endured into the next century and as late as 1782 Reynolds wrote that van der Helst's Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster 'is, perhaps, the first picture of portraits in the world', adding that it as far exceeded his expectations as Rembrandt's Night Watch fell below them. ## Related artworks - [Abraham del Court and Maria de Keersegieter]() - [Anna du Pire as Granida]() - [Celebration of the Peace of Münster, 1648, at the Crossbowmen's Headquarters \(detail\)]() - [Celebration of the Peace of Münster, 1648, at the Crossbowmen's Headquarters]() - [Pieter Lucaszn van de Venne with Anna de Carpentier and Child]() - [Portrait of a Family]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Gideon de Wildt]() - [Regents of the Walloon Orphanage]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()