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Adriaen van Ostade was the eldest son of Jan Hendricx Ostade, a weaver from the hamlet of Ostade near Eindhoven. Although Adriaen and his brother Isaack were born in Haarlem, they adopted the name “van Ostade” as painters. Adriaen became a pupil in 1627 of the portrait painter Frans Hals, at that time the master of Jan Miense Molenaer.
In 1632, he is registered in Utrecht (where he was probably influenced by the village scenes of Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, which were popular in his day), but in 1634 he was back in Haarlem where he joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. Aged 26, he joined a company of the civic guard at Haarlem, and at twenty-eight he married. His wife died two years later in 1640. In 1657, “as a widower”, he married Anna Ingels. He again became a widower in 1666. He opened a workshop and took on pupils: Cornelis Pietersz Bega, Cornelis Dusart, Jan de Groot, Michiel van Musscher, Isaac van Ostade, Evert Oudendijck, and Jan Steen |
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Peasants in an Interior
Alchemist
Barber Extracting a Tooth (1630–1635)
The Cottage Dooryard
Rustic Concert with Pipe and Violin
The Drinker
Feasting Peasants in a Tavern
Merry Peasants
Inn Scene
Inside a Peasant's Cottage
Lawyer In His Study
Mother Holding her Child in a Doorway
The painter in his workshop 1603
Peasant Family in an Interior
Merrymaking Outside an Inn
Peasants in a Tavern (c. 1635)
Portrait of a Family
Smoker
The Fishwife
The School Master
