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Peeter Gijsels is known for his landscapes, architectural scenes and still life paintings. [2] He also was a genre artist who painted many scenes of Flemish village kermisses, dances and markets. [5] His compositions are typically small-scale and painted on copper. Kermis in a Flemish village
An Italian evening scene. Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.
Self portrait, 1813. Johann Wenzel Peter was born September 9, 1745, in Karlsbad in the now-Czech Republic and died December 28, 1829, in Rome, Italy.Peter is known for his animal paintings which appear in the Vatican Museums and frescos which are on the walls of the Galleria Borghese.
Pieter Casteels III was born in Antwerp as the son of Elisabeth Bosschaert and Pieter Casteels II, a painter of landscapes and history paintings. [2] He trained with his father. In 1708 he left with his brother-in-law Peter Tillemans to England to work for a picture dealer named Turner for whom they made copies of Old Master paintings. [3]
The Beggars or The Cripples is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1568. It is now in the Louvre, in Paris. Its also is the only painting by Bruegel in the Louvre, received as a gift in 1892.
Buytewech was primarily a graphic artist, mostly of landscapes and genre pieces, but occasionally also of biblical and allegorical themes. Of his paintings only eight have survived to this date, all genre pieces, most depicting merry companies. Merry Company on a Terrace (1616) is in the collection of the Mauritshuis, the Hague. [2]
The art historian Klaus Ertz documented 127 copies in his comprehensive monograph on the artist's son in 2000. [2] The painting comes from a brief period when Bruegel painted five snowy landscapes (see gallery below), thereby establishing a genre of winter landscapes in Western art. [3]
Glenn Anthony Wessels (1895 – July 23, 1982) [1] [2] [3] was a Cape Colony-born American painter, etcher, lithographer and arts educator. He was a professor at the California College of the Arts , Washington State University , and the University of California, Berkeley .