Hendrick
Avercamp
(1585 - May 15, 1634)
Avercamp was
born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Avercamp was
baptized on January 27, 1585. Avercamp was deaf and dumb
and known as de Stomme van Kampen (the mute of Kampen). For
his artistic training, Hendrick Avercamp was sent to
Amsterdam to study with the Danish portrait painter Pieter
Isaacks (1569-1625). As one of the first landscape painters
of the 17th-century Dutch school, Avercamp specialized in
painting The Netherlands in winter. Avercamp paintings are
colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the
people in the landscape.
Avercamp paintings enjoyed
great popularity and he sold his drawings, many of which
were tinted with water-color, as finished paintings to be
pasted into the albums of collectors. Queen Elizabeth II has
an outstanding collection of his paintings at Windsor
Castle, England. Hendrick Avercamp died in Kampen, the
Netherlands and was interred in the Sint Nicolaaskerk in
Kampen.
