Ludolf Backhuysen
b.Dec. 18, 1631, Emden, East Frisia [Germany]
d.Nov. 17, 1708, Amsterdam, Neth.
Dutch
Ludolf Backhuysen Gallery Related Paintings of Ludolf Backhuysen :. | Detail of THe Eendracht and a Fleet of Dutch Men-of-War | Ships Running Aground | Backhuysen | The Y at Amsterdam, seen from the Mosselsteiger (mussel pier). | The Y at Amsterdam viewed from Mussel Pier | Related Artists: Hugo Briger1854-1887 Ligeti, AntalHungarian Painter, 1823-1890 Martin, HenriFrench Post-Impressionist Painter, 1860-1943
French painter. After winning the Grand Prix at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, he moved to Paris (1879) to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there under Jean-Paul Laurens, who encouraged his interest in Veronese and other Venetian painters. The literary inspiration of his early work was reflected in such paintings as Paolo de Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini in Hell (1883; Carcassonne, Mus. B.-A.) based on Dante, for which he won a medal at the Salon of 1883. During his subsequent study in Rome, however, on a fellowship awarded to him at the Salon,
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