English Painter, 1759-1828  Related Paintings of John Nost Sartorius :. | Entering the Woods A Hunt | Sportsmen Going out | Still life of fruits | Entering The Woods,A Hunt | 'Creeper' a Bay colt with Jockey up at the Starting post at the Running Gap in the Devils Ditch,Newmarket |
Related Artists:
threshing wheat
early sixteenth century. paris. muse'e des arts de'coratifs
George Hicks
British 1824-1914
MOEYAERT, Claes Cornelisz.
Dutch painter (b. 1590/91, Durgerdam, d. 1655, Durgerdam) Dutch painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the son of an aristocratic Catholic Amsterdam merchant and moved to the city with his family in 1605. He was the most prolific of the history painters now called the PRE-REMBRANDTISTS, whose representations of biblical and mythological narratives, as well as of more recent secular history, give particular emphasis to dramatic and psychological effects. After working initially as a draughtsman and etcher, Moeyaert soon made his name as a painter. Landscapes with animals feature prominently in both his etchings and his paintings. At first he followed the lead of Adam Elsheimer, then of fellow Pre-Rembrandtists Pieter Lastman and Jan and Jacob Pynas, eventually, in the mid-1630s,