impression artist 1853-1933  Related Paintings of Asta Norregaard :. | La Lecture | British Gas Works on the River Spree | osterlanggatan | Stilleben mit apfeln und Orangen | Madonna with the carnation |
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woman embroidering
sixteenth century courtly life tapestry paris musee de cluny
VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675
MOEYAERT, Claes Cornelisz.
Dutch painter (b. 1590/91, Durgerdam, d. 1655, Durgerdam) Dutch painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the son of an aristocratic Catholic Amsterdam merchant and moved to the city with his family in 1605. He was the most prolific of the history painters now called the PRE-REMBRANDTISTS, whose representations of biblical and mythological narratives, as well as of more recent secular history, give particular emphasis to dramatic and psychological effects. After working initially as a draughtsman and etcher, Moeyaert soon made his name as a painter. Landscapes with animals feature prominently in both his etchings and his paintings. At first he followed the lead of Adam Elsheimer, then of fellow Pre-Rembrandtists Pieter Lastman and Jan and Jacob Pynas, eventually, in the mid-1630s,