Editing Caesar van Everdingen

{{short description|Dutch painter}}
[[File:Young woman warming her hands. Caesar van Everdingen.jpg|right|thumb|''Young woman warming her hands'' by Caesar van Everdingen (1646), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam]]
'''Cesar Pietersz''', or '''Cesar Boetius van Everdingen''' (1616/17 – buried 13 October 1678), older brother of [[Allart van Everdingen]] and Jan van Everdingen, was a [[Dutch Golden Age]] [[portrait]] and history [[Painting|painter]].

==Biography==
[[File:Caesar van Everdingen - Bachus en Ariadne 1660.jpg|thumbnail|left|''Bacchus and Ariadne'', 1660]]
[[File:Everdingen - Rape of Europa.jpg|thumb| ''Rape of Europa'']]
[[File:Jupiter and Callisto (Cesar Boetius van Everdingen) - Nationalmuseum - 18160.tif|thumbnail|''Jupiter and Callisto'']]
<!-- [[File:Caesar van Everdingen Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges.jpg|left|thumb|''Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges'' by Caesar van Everdingen (1654), oil on canvas, 220 x 200 cm, [[Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland]], Leiden]] -->
He was born in [[Alkmaar]] and educated in [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], where he learned to paint from [[Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst]].<ref name=Houbraken>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0226.htm Cesar van Everdingen Biography] in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by [[Arnold Houbraken]], courtesy of the [[Digital library for Dutch literature]]</ref><ref name=RKD>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/26852 Cesar Boetius van Everdingen] in the [[RKD]]</ref>  Caesar became a member of the painter's guild in [[Alkmaar]] in 1632.<ref name=RKD/> His first known painting dates from 1636.<ref name=RKD/> In 1648 he moved to [[Haarlem]], where he joined the [[Haarlem Guild of St. Luke]] and the civic guard (or ''[[schutterij]]'') there, where he met [[Jacob van Campen]].<ref name=RKD/> From 1648 to 1650 He helped him with the decoration of the ''Oranje Zaal'' (Orange room) in [[Huis ten Bosch]]. In 1658 he moved back to Alkmaar where he started a workshop and took on pupils.<ref name=RKD/>  He died and was buried in the Grote- or St. Laurenskerk in Alkmaar.

==Works==
Many of his pictures are to be seen in the museums and private houses of the [[Netherlands]], with several on display at the [[Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar]]. His pupils were [[Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff]], Adriaen Dekker, [[Hendrik Graauw]], and [[Thomas Heeremans]].<ref name=RKD/> Houbraken also lists two other pupils; Adriaen Warmenhuizen, and Laurens Oosthoorn.<ref name=Houbraken/> The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid owns a Vertumnus and Pomona {{Circa|1637–1640}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/everdingen-caesar-van/vertumnus-and-pomona|title=Vertumnus and Pomona|website=Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza|language=en|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="154" heights="160">
File:Everdingen, Caesar van - Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus - c. 1650.jpg|''Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus''
File:WollebrantGeleynssendeJongh.jpg|''Wollebrand Geleynssen de Jongh''
File:Meisje met brede hoed door Caesar van Everdingen.jpg|''Girl in a Large Hat''
File:Caesar van Everdingen - Joueuse de Cistre.jpg|''Joueuse de cistre'', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
File:Caesar van everdingen-vertumno y pomona-thyssen.jpg|''Vertumnus and Pomona'', [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]], Madrid.
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.artnet.com/artist/668285/cesar-boetius-van-everdingen.html Caesar van Everdingen] on [[Artnet]]
*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/everdingen_cesar_van.html Cesar van Everdingen at Artcyclopedia]
*[http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/e/everding/caesar/biograph.html Biography at  Web Gallery of Art]
*[http://www.pubhist.com/person/1656/cesar-van-everdingen Works and literature] at PubHist

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