Hubert van Ravesteyn: life and works

Hubert van Ravesteyn was a Dutch painter of interiors and cattle, the son of Herman van Ravesteyn. He was born at Dordrecht in 1638 and died there with 1683 and 1691. He was married 22 December 1669 in Papendrecht to Catharina van Meurs, with whom he had 8 children. His pictures, signed when the monogram H.R., are painted in a brownish tone later than Cornelis Saftleven, Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh, and others. In his before pictures (as for example the still-life of 1664 in the Museum at Amsterdam) the painting is more deliberately coloured.

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