Adriaen Cornelisz. Beeldemaker (Rotterdam c. 1625-after 1701 The Hague), Portrait of a young lady, oil on canvas, full-length, in an orange dress, holding two appeltjes van Oranje in her right hand, her dog beside her, on a terrace
indistinctly signed and indistinctly dated 'AC BEELDEMAEKER /16.4 (?)' (AC linked, lower left), framed, wear consistent with age, canvas: 43”h x 34” w.

Adriaen Cornelisz. Beeldemaker was a prominent Dutch Golden Age painter celebrated primarily for his specialized depictions of hunting expeditions and domestic animals. Born in Rotterdam, he emerged from an artistic family and built a lifelong career spanning several major Dutch art centers. Throughout his long and productive life, he dynamically shifted his workshop across several key cities, registering and working in Leiden, Dordrecht, and ultimately The Hague, where he spent his final decades.

Historical accounts by biographer Jan van Gool indicate that Beeldemaker's artwork was highly popular during his lifetime. This commercial success was largely driven by his ability to produce prolific, high-quality canvases that appealed to a broad class of Dutch patrons. Also known in some historical archives as Johannes, he operated a busy studio with numerous pupils and passed his trade down to his sons, Cornelis and Frans Beeldemaker, who both established themselves as painters.

Beeldemaker remains highly regarded for his ability to capture the natural grandeur of wildlife, specializing in dynamic hunting scenes, deer and boar hunts, and compositions detailing packs of hounds. His famous masterwork, The Hunter (1653), is preserved and exhibited at the prestigious Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Other examples of his paintings can be found in international public collections, such as the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden and the Kadriorg Palace art museum in Estonia.

[PROVENANCE: From the Estate of Ruth Graham, purchased from Christies Amsterdam (Live Auction 2640 Old Master Pictures and Drawings 3 Nov 2004). Previously from the Estate of Theodor Stuart, a private art collector and affluent citizen of Amsterdam who built an extensive, highly regarded collection of antiquities and decorative arts during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Was part of the well known auction by famed Art Historian Dr. Alphonsus Maria Petrus Benedictus de Vries of the Stuart Collection on December 16, 1930 in Amsterdam.)