# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-van-honthorst
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:10:05.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-van-honthorst"
name: "Gerard van Honthorst"
slug: "gerard-van-honthorst"
description: "Gerard \"Gerrit\" van Honthorst was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the Italian nickname Gherardo delle Notti. Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio. Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter. Van Honthorst's contemporaries included Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen."
tagline: "Dutch Golden Age painter (1592-1656)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerard_van_Honthorst.png?width=1200"
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birthDate: "1592-11-04"
deathDate: "1656-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump