14 Facts About Hendrick Avercamp

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Hendrick Avercamp was one of the earliest landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter.

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Hendrick Avercamp's paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape.

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Hendrick Avercamp's works give a vivid depiction of sport and leisure in the Netherlands in the beginning of the 17th century.

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Hendrick Avercamp's work enjoyed great popularity and he sold his drawings, many of which were tinted with water-color, as finished pictures to be pasted into the albums of collectors.

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Hendrick Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacsz, and perhaps with David Vinckboons, who was a follower of Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

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Hendrick Avercamp was mute and probably deaf, he was known as "de Stomme van Kampen".

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Hendrick Avercamp had a nephew Barent Avercamp who was a painter and who imitated Hendrick's style of painting.

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Hendrick Avercamp lived his entire life through the Eighty Years' war, where the young Dutch Republic resisted in a war against the Spanish Habsburgs.

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Hendrick Avercamp died in Kampen and was interred there in the Sint Nicolaaskerk.

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Hendrick Avercamp probably painted in his studio on the basis of sketches he had made in the winter.

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Hendrick Avercamp was famous even from abroad for his winter landscapes.

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The last quarter of the 16th century, during which Hendrick Avercamp was born, was one of the coldest periods of the Little Ice Age.

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Hendrick Avercamp painted landscapes with a high horizon and many figures who are working on something.

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Sometimes Hendrick Avercamp used paper frames, which were a cheap alternative to oil paintings.