# Scholar with his Books [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 64,5 x 49 cm ## Commentary Eeckhout was a Dutch painter of portraits, religious subjects and genre, active in Amsterdam. He was a friend and favourite pupil of Rembrandt and a close imitator of his style. In about 1655 he painted a number of scenes in the totally different manner of Ter Borch. Eeckhout's Scholar with his Books gives us no impression of the wisdom evoked in Rembrandt's portrait of the Old Rabbi. Here we see an industrious pedant whose learning is indicated only by external objects-the books and the globe. The learned men portrayed by Vermeer and Rembrandt are men of exceptional qualities but their portraits cannot be called genre paintings. This picture by Eeckhout is certainly a genre painting, the sitter, however, is not shown to be a sage but a burgher. The warm brownish-red and yellowish colours and the manner of painting are reminiscent of Rembrandt's later style. ## Related artworks - [A Musical Party]() - [Abraham and the Three Angels]() - [Bathing Men]() - [Elisha and the Shunammite Woman \(detail\)]() - [Elisha and the Shunammite Woman]() - [Isaac Blessing Jacob \(detail\)]() - [Isaac Blessing Jacob]() - [Jeroboam's Sacrifice at Bethel]() - [Party on a Terrace]() - [Portrait of a Boy as Daifilo]() - [Portrait of a Family]() - [Portrait of Maria Dircksdr. Bogaert]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()