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Here are all the paintings of CALRAET, Abraham van 01
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Painting |
Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z |
Painting Description |
| 43816 |
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A Horse and Cows in a Landscape |
Oil on panel,
28 x 40 cm |
| 72867 |
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Artist Designing After Nature |
Date ca. 1651(1651)
Medium Oil on cradled panel
Dimensions 27.9 X 45.4 cm (10.98 X 17.87 in)
cyf |
| 5544 |
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Still-life with Peaches and Grapes |
c. 1680
Oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| CALRAET, Abraham van
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| Dutch painter, Dordrecht school (b. 1642, Dordrecht, d. 1722, Dordrecht)
Dutch painter. He was the eldest son of Pieter Jansz. van Calraet (c. 1620-81), a sculptor from Utrecht. According to Houbraken, Abraham was taught by the Dordrecht sculptors Aemilius and Samuel Huppe, although nothing is known of his activity as a sculptor. Houbraken also stated that Abraham learnt to paint figures and fruit and that his brother Barent van Calraet (1649-1737), who specialized at first in horse paintings but later imitated the Rhine landscapes of Herman Saftleven, was a pupil of Aelbert Cuyp (see CUYP, (3)). The known signed works by Barent confirm this. A painting of two horses in a stable, initialled APK (Rotterdam, Mus. Boymans-van Beuningen), indicates that Abraham, too, must have been well acquainted with Cuyp and provides the basis for identifying Abraham's painting style. A large number of landscapes with horses, paintings of livestock in stables and still-lifes, all initialled A.C. and formerly attributed to Aelbert Cuyp,
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