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Hendrick Avercamp
Dutch painter - draftsman
born 1585 - died 1634
Also known as: Hendrick Berentsz. de Stom van Kampen Avercamp,
Hendrick Berentsz. de Stomme van Kampen Avercamp, Hendrik Avercamp,
Hendrick de Stom tot Campen, Hendrick Stom tot Campen, Hendrick Stom van
Campen, Hendrick Stomme van Campen , Hendrick van Campen, Hendrick
Vander Stom.
Dutch painter, active in Kampen, the most famous exponent of the winter
landscape. He was deaf and dumb and known as de Stomme van Kampen (the
mute of Kampen). As one of the first landscape painters of the
17th-century Dutch school, Avercamp links the archaic decorative
conception of Flemish origins and the new realist and objective
ambitions developped in Holland by Essaias van de Velde and Jan van
Goyen. His paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully observed
skaters, tobogganers, golfers, and pedestrians. Avercamp's work enjoyed
great popularity and he sold his drawings, many of which are tinted with
water-color, as finished pictures to be pasted into the albums of
collectors (an outstanding collection is at Windsor Castle). His nephew
and pupil Barent Avercamp (1612-79) carried on his style in an
accomplished manner.
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