French Rococo Era Painter, 1685-1766 Related Paintings of Jjean-Marc nattier :. | Marie-Josephe de Saxe, Dauphine de France dite autrfois Madame de France | Portrait of Pierre Victor Besenval de Bronstatt commander of the Swiss Guards in France. | Portrait de Christian Louis de Montmorency-Luxembourg, marechal de France | Princesse de Rohan | Madame Henriette de France as a Vestal Virgin | Related Artists:
Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem(1 October 1620 - 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.
Born in Haarlem, he received instruction from his father Pieter Claesz, and from the painters Jan van Goyen, Pieter de Grebber, Jan Baptist Weenix, Jan Wils and Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert.According to Houbraken, Carel de Moor told him that Berchem got his name from two words "Berg hem" for "Save him!", an expression used by his fellows in Van Goyen's workshop whenever his father chased him there with the intent to beat him. No trip or Grand Tour by Berchem was documented by Houbraken though he mentioned another story about the "Berg hem!" nickname which came from Berchem's conscription as a sailor; the man in charge of impressment knew him and sent him ashore with the words "Save him!".Today his name is assumed to come from his father's hometown of Berchem, Antwerp. According to the RKD he traveled to Italy with Jan Baptist Weenix, whom he called his cousin, in 1642-5. Works by him are signed both as "CBerghem" and "Berchem".
Walton Taber1857-1933
Beardsley LimnerAmerican Colonial Era Painter, active 1785-1805
