# OCHTERVELT, Jacob [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1634–1682 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Ochtervelt was a Dutch genre painter active mainly in Rotterdam, but from 1674 he lived in Amsterdam. He was influenced by Pieter de Hooch and through him by Vermeer. Apart from a few portraits and some early hunting party and "merry company" scenes, his paintings are almost all elegant upper-class interiors, in which he showed off a skill in painting silks and satins to rival that of Terborch. His figures are extremely refined, but there is often a sexual element in his painting. ## Related artworks - [A Child and Nurse in the Foyer of a Townhouse]() - [A Family Group]() - [Buying Grapes]() - [Itinerant Musicians]() - [Musical Company in an Interior]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Rehearsing the Song]() - [Street Musicians at the Doorway of a House]() - [The Drawing Lesson]() - [The Love Letter]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()