Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1616-1680
Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was a pupil and prominent follower of Rembrandt in Amsterdam. His reputation and fame are based on his history paintings, which, though successful at the time, Related Paintings of Ferdinand bol :. | Die Vorsteher der Amsterdamer Weinhandlergilde | Governors of the Wine Merchants Guild | Portrait of Engel de Ruyter (1649-1683). | Portrait of a Seated Man (mk33) | Portrait of a Woman (mk33) | Related Artists:
French schoolMorgenstern, ChristianGerman, 1805-1867
German painter. After training from 1824 with Siegfried Bendixen (1786-1864) in Hamburg, he studied at the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen in 1827 and made sketching trips to Sweden and Norway. He then settled permanently in Munich. He was influenced in particular by 17th-century Dutch painters, notably Jacob van Ruisdael, the Copenhagen plein-air painters, the emerging Norwegian landscape school and the early Realist painters working in Munich, such as Johann Georg von Dillis. Morgenstern explored objective, pure landscape painting with intimate motifs in such works as Beech-tree Trunks in Fredericksdal near Copenhagen (1828; Hamburg, Ksthalle). He also painted scenes combining closely rendered foreground details with extensive,
CLEVE, Cornelis vanFlemish painter, Antwerp school (b. 1520, Antwerpen, d.
after 1570, Antwerpen).