CYCLOPEDIA OF Painters and Paintings.
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LAAR, JAN HENDRIK VAN DE, born
at Rotterdam,
Jan.
1, 1807, died there,
May 15, 1874.
History and genre
painter, pupil of
Cornelis Bakker
(born in 1771), and
in Antwerp of
Wappers; returned
in 1830 and lived
first at The Hague, afterwards at Rotterdam,
whence he again visited Antwerp,
spending there two years. Member of Amsterdam
Academy in 1852, and professor.
Works: Heroic Death of Herman de Ruyter
(1840); Daughter craving her Father's Pardon
(1842), New Pinakothek, Munich; Pilgrim
returning from Holy Land; Fugitives
Hiding; Alice (after Walter Scott); A Baptism
in 1600; Salvator Rosa drawing Girl's
Portrait; Wedding in 17th Century; Benvenuto
Cellini in his Workshop; Jacob van
Campen and the Fortune-Teller; Rembrandt's
Journey; Adriaan van Ostade drawing
from Nature; Erasmus in his Study;
Retreat of the Waldenses; Protestant Service
in 17th Century; Emigrants Ready to
Start; Patriotic Women at Delft in 1573;
Allegory on Engraving (1852); Resurrection;
Two Allegories on Music representing Rotterdam
in 1829 and the Netherlands in 1854
(1854); Benvenuto Cellini and Cosmo de'
Medici (1859); Divorce Case, Rotterdam Museum.—Immerzeel,
ii. 146; Kramm, iii. 929.
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LAAR (Laer), PIETER VAN, called Bamboccio
(cripple),
born at Haarlem
about 1600, died
there after 1658.
Dutch school;
genre painter,
pupil of Jan van
Campen (1590?-1650);
went with
his brother Roeland
about 1623
through France to Italy, and remained for
sixteen years in Rome, living in friendly intercourse
with Poussin, Claude Lorrain, and
Sandrart, but going his own way in art,
which differed widely from that of those
masters. He avoided the ideal, and treated,
with much humour and truthfulness, realistic
subjects, such as scenes from Italian
popular life, markets, jugglers, gypsies, etc.;
also landscapes, finding many imitators, notably
Cerquozzi and Jan Miel, so that the
"bambocciate" formed a special branch in
art. His nickname was given him partly on
account of his deformity, partly for his
