WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1653-1736 Related Paintings of WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van :. | Il Molo e la Piazzetta (mk21) | View of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome | The Castel Sant Angelo from the South | Rome, the Tiber near the Porto di Ripa Grande | The St Peter s in Rome | Related Artists: Jean Baptiste OudryFrench Baroque Era Painter, 1686-1755
French painter. He was the principal animal painter and one of the foremost decorative painters during the first half of Louis XVs reign. After initial training as a portrait painter, he concentrated on still-lifes; by the 1720s he had also begun to establish himself as a specialist in hunting scenes, game-pieces and portraits of animals. He ran an active workshop, often keeping his best originals for years and selling copies and (more or less autograph) variants. In the 1730s he was most active as a tapestry designer, making numerous designs for the royal tapestry works of Beauvais and the Gobelins, and he continued to produce his brilliantly painted hunts, still-lifes and studies of animals and birds to the end of his career. Eugen BrachtSwiss, 1842 - 1921 Orazio RiminaldiItalian painter
b. 1593, Pisa, d. 1630, Pisa
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