Nicolaes Berchem Art
Dutch, 1620-1683
Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (Haarlem, 1 October 1620 - Amsterdam, 16 February 1683) was a Dutch painter, specializing in pastoral scenes populated by mythological characters or biblical figures.
He was born in Haarlem, the son of the still life painter Pieter Claesz, who introduced him to the artistic world and taught him the first rudiments of painting. The surname Berchem, on the other hand, derived from the father's place of birth. He deepened his knowledge of him, according to the reconstruction of various art historians, under the guidance of Jan van Goyen, Jan Wils and Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert.
According to many sources, Berchem traveled to Italy in a period prior to 1642, together with the Dutch painter Hendrick Mommers and Jan Baptist Weenix, who was a cousin and the same age as him and with whom he also shared the experience in the Moeyaert's workshop.
In fact, around 1642, his presence in the guild of San Luca in Haarlem is documented.
The influence of Moeyaert was evident above all in the early years, as is attested by the Laban of 1643.
On 2 October 1646 he married Jan Wils' daughter, Catrijne Claesdr. De Groot. Around 1650 he moved to Westphalia together with Jacob van Ruisdael, and, after a second stay in Italy (1653-1656), he returned to his homeland, to Amsterdam where he worked on behalf of Jan de Visscher.
In the middle period of his career his vast production was mostly centered on port panoramas, hunts, ruins in Latin and Roman landscapes, battles and of course pastoral landscapes.
In the mature period, in addition to favoring more showy colors, he approached Adriaen van de Velde.
His artistic production was remarkable, given that his works amounted to 850 pieces, including about sixty etchings and numerous important sanguine drawings.
His Italian-style landscapes of ideal rural, hilly and mountain environments were embellished with human and animal figures partially inspired by the works of other artists, such as Allaert van Everdingen, Jan Hackaert, Gerrit Dou, Meindert Hobbema and Willem Schellinks.
Berchem exerted a strong influence on subsequent generations of Dutch painters and various French Rococo painters, such as Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Jean-Baptiste Oudry. Furthermore, his landscape artistic lines will inspire a good number of artists, such as François Boucher, Jean Pillement, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and among the English Thomas Gainsborough.
His studies on animals were also of some importance.
He died in Amsterdam in 1683.(Biography provided by Antichita Castelbarco)
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Artist: Nicolaes Berchem
Sanguine drawing "Shepherdess on a Donkey" by Nicolaes Berchem
By Nicolaes Berchem
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Provenance: Mercedes von Dietrichtein, Buenos Aires. Alexander von Dietrichstein. By descendants Morritz von Diestrichstein.
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.
He was a member of the second generation of "Dutch Italianate landscape" painters. These were artists who travelled to Italy, or aspired to, in order to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of classical ruins and pastoral imagery. His paintings, of which he produced an immense number, (Hofstede de Groot claimed around 850, although many are misattributed), were in great demand, as were his 80 etchings and 500 drawings. His landscapes, painted in the Italian style of idealized rural scenes, with hills, mountains, cliffs and trees in a golden dawn...
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17th Century Dutch School Nicolaes Berchem Art
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