Selection of Dutch Master Nicholas Berchem Animalia at the House of Stow Fine Arts . We are honored to offers a selection of these little Dutch Masters pieces of Genre by this master . Berchems work are often overlooked by other portraitist engravers of the period. Berchem like Kaln Du Jardin and de Velde were very accomplished artists working with images of animals and are greatly under valued for todays collector and scholar of the Golden Age of dutch Art . Dutch Master Nicholas Berchem Animalia at the House of Stow Fine Arts Nicolaes Pieterz. Berchem (1620-1683) was a highly esteemed Dutch painter and engraver of pastoral landscapes. Between circa 1640 and 1683 he produced a number of suites concerning animals. The present one concerns goats. https://etsy/listing/189914100/nicholas-berchem-shepard-resting-on-a?ref=shop_home_active_3&ga_search_query=berchem Berchems works are in major museums worldwide, including the Rijksmuseum, the Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery in London, and many others. Impressions of his etchings, including prints from Animalia such as the ones offered here, are also in numerous major museums. These etchings of sheep (as well as one of a shepherd pouring water) were part of a suite of etchings called Animalia ad vivum delineata, et aquâ forti aeri impressa Studio et arte Nicolai Berchemi created by Berchem in the mid-1600s and published by Clemendt de Jonge (de Jonge published the first edition of the prints ---- later editions were published by other printers). This listing includes eight etchings (some signed in the plate, others unsigned) by Berchem. https://etsy/listing/189914100/nicholas-berchem-shepard-resting-on-a?ref=shop_home_active_3&ga_search_query=berchem Born in Haarlem, he received instruction from his father Pieter Claesz, and from the painters Jan van Goyen, Pieter de Grebber, Jan Baptist Weenix, Jan Wils and Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert.According to Houbraken, Carel de Moor told him that Berchem got his name from two words Berg hem for Save him!, an expression used by his fellows in Van Goyens workshop whenever his father chased him there with the intent to beat him.No trip or Grand Tour by Berchem was documented by Houbraken though he mentioned another story about the Berg hem! nickname which came from Berchems conscription as a sailor; the man in charge of impressment knew him and sent him ashore with the words Save him!.Today his name is assumed to come from his fathers hometown of Berchem, Antwerp. According to the RKD he traveled to Italy with Jan Baptist Weenix, whom he called his cousin, in 1642-5.Works by him are signed both as CBerghem and Berchem. In 1645 he became a member of the Dutch reformed church and married the year after. According to Houbraken he married the daughter of the painter Jan Wils, who kept him on a short allowance, but to finance his collection of prints he would borrow money from his pupils and colleagues and pay them back from the proceeds of paintings that he didnt tell her about. Around 1650 he travelled to Westphalia with Jacob van Ruisdael, where a dated piece showing Bad Bentheim is recorded.Maybe Berchem went to Italy after this trip and before he moved to Amsterdam - he is not clearly documented in the Netherlands between 1650 and 1656. Around 1660 he worked for the engraver Jan de Visscher designing an atlas. In 1661-1670 he is registered in Amsterdam and in 1670 he moved back to Haarlem, but was living back in Amsterdam by 1677, where he died in 1683. He was a popular teacher and his pupils were Abraham Begeyn, Johannes van der Bent, his son Nicolaes, Isaack Croonenbergh, Simon Dubois, Karel Dujardin, Johannes Glauber, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Huchtenburg, Justus van Huysum, Dirk Maas, Hendrick Mommers, Jacob Ochtervelt, and Willem Romeyn.He was the uncle of Govert van der Leeuw and his brother Pieter. 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 mis attributed), 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 are sought after. Berchem also painted inspired and attractive human and animal figures (staff age) in works of other artists, like Allaert van Everdingen, Jan Hackaert, Gerrit Dou, Meindert Hobbema and Willem Schellinks. The French Rococo painter Jean-Baptiste Pillement was influenced by his works, as was the Dutch Cleves Romanticism landscape painter, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. James Louis Stow House of Stow fine Arts 1+305 756 9514
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