Hendrick Avercamp
1585 - 1634
Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter. He was the most famous exponent of the winter landscape.
Hendrick Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was deaf and known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen). For his artistic training, Hendrick was sent to Amsterdam to study with the Danish portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625).
As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting The Netherlands in winter. He links the archaic decorative conception of Flemish origins and the new realist and objective ambitions developed in Holland by Essaias van de Velde and Jan van Goyen. Avercamp's paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape.
His 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.
Hendrick Avercamp died in Kampen, the Netherlands and was interred in the Sint Nicolaaskerk in Kampen.
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