- Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp (bapt.
January 27 ,1585 ,Amsterdam - buriedMay 15 ,1634 ,Kampen (Overijssel) ) was a Dutch painter.Avercamp studied in Amsterdam with the Danish-born portrait painter
Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625), and perhaps also withDavid Vinckbooms . In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province ofOverijssel . Avercamp wasdeaf and was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen).As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter. Avercamp's paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape.
Avercamp's work enjoyed great popularity and he sold his drawings, many of which were tinted with water-color, as finished pictures to be pasted into the albums of collectors. Queen Elizabeth II has an outstanding collection of his works at
Windsor Castle ,England .Avercamp died in Kampen and was interred there in the Sint Nicolaaskerk.
External links
* [http://www.galleryofart.us/Hendrick_Avercamp/ Hendrick Avercamp at Gallery of Art]
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/avercamp/ Avercamp at the WebMuseum]
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