January 25, 1615 was born Govert Flink

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Dutch hudozhnik.Flink turned to painting under the influence of Lambert Jacobs, who about 1630 worked in Kleve, then he entered the studio Jacobs in Leeuwarden, where he was at the time and Bakker, an artist whose creative evolution is very close to the art of Flink, and whose great pictures with featuring naked figures are very similar to the naked Wizard of Cleves. Then, around 1632-1633 Flink and Bakker sent to Amsterdam in the workshop of Rembrandt. Since 1636 Flink works independently and performs his first known paintings, such as <Shepherdess> (Braunschweig, Museum of the Herzog Anton Ulrich) and <Shepherd> (Amsterdam, Gos. Museum), which in the form of a shepherd before, perhaps, himself Rembrandt.
Flink was one of Rembrandt's pupils, who were able to understand the manner of the master, and often even come close to his level. But like Bolu, he soon became a fashionable portrait painter, could not escape the influence of secular and decorative manner of van der Helsta and Italo-Flemish Baroque history painting, in this sense, it is close to other students the wrong Rembrandt (Livensu, Bolu, Bakker, Owens, Viktors, Ekhautu).
In his first and best period of creativity Flink creates portraits, sketches of heads, religious figures (<Blessing Jacob>, 1638, Amsterdam, Gos. Museum). In these portraits, as a portrait and Grasvinkelya
his wife (1646, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) or <Girl> (Nantes, Museum of Fine Arts), landscape backgrounds painted in bright colors. Among the many masterpieces of those years will be called as <Black Arrow> (London, Wallace Collection), to 1913, attributed to Rembrandt, <girl> (1640, The Hague, Mauritshuis), performed in bright, radiant and saturated colors, <young man> (1640, Birmingham , Barberovsky Institute of Art), <a young shepherd> (Paris, Louvre), and a painting of Ben Yisrael (The Hague, Mauritshuis), which is forged once the signature of Rembrandt. Among the religious compositions include some good imitations of Rembrandt, for example, <Evangelism shepherds> (1639, Paris, Louvre) or <Sacrifice of Abraham> (1636, Munich, Alte Pinakothek), directly inspired by a painting by Rembrandt in the same story, written in the previous year (St. Petersburg Gos. Hermitage).
After 1640 the influence of Rembrandt is weakened: the big corporate portraits of Flink (1642, 1645 and 1648, Amsterdam, Gos. Museum) is very skilled, but lack that special originality, which is inherent in, for example, portraits of van der Helsta (portrait of a nobleman and his wife, 1646, Raleigh, North Carolina Museum; <Chet>, Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle). As a historical painter, Flink created large allegorical paintings, executed in a solemn Baroque style, so captivated the poet Vondel (<Birth of William Henry Brandenburg> Potsdam, Sanssouci Palace, <shtadtgaltera Death of Frederick Henry of Orange>, 1654, Amsterdam, Gos.muzey ). But the top creative Flink steel giant paintings <Prayer of Solomon> (1658) and <Marcus Curius Dentatus> (1656), written for the new Amsterdam Town Hall (now - I Cor.'s Palace), which holds today. In 1659 Flink receives an order for execution of 12 historical paintings for the Amsterdam Town Hall (8 large paintings glorifying the struggle against the Romans, and 4, the smaller sizes - portrayed different characters of the past). But the artist died in 1660, performing only an outline of the four compositions (one of them, Owens completed in 1662, would replace the rejected painting by Rembrandt <Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis>; other pictures painted Bol, Livensom, Bakker, Rembrandt and Jordaens).