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A Huntsman Firing a Pistol in a Rocky Landscape
Auction: 01/25/2007 - 1/26/2007
Lot: 407
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Johann Heinrich Roos AUCTION RECORDS
1631 Otterberg, Germany - 1685 Frankfurt, Germany. Known for: Anamalier and pastoral idyll painting, etching.
Johan Heinrich Roos was the most important German animalier of the 17th century; his realistic views of cattle, goats and sheep in the gentle sunshine of southern landscapes were much copied in... Read full biography
Johan Heinrich Roos was the most important German animalier of the 17th century; his realistic views of cattle, goats and sheep in the gentle sunshine of southern landscapes were much copied in Germany and Holland until the early 19th century. His family left their home in the Palatinate c. 1637,... Read full biography
Johan Heinrich Roos was the most important German animalier of the 17th century; his realistic views of cattle, goats and sheep in the gentle sunshine of southern landscapes were much copied in Germany and Holland until the early 19th century. His family left their home in the Palatinate c. 1637, fleeing the Thirty Years War, and moved to Amsterdam c. 1640. There, Roos trained (1647-51) in history painting with Guilliam Dujardin (1597-after 1647), in landscape with Cornelis de Bie and in... Read full biography
Johan Heinrich Roos was the most important German animalier of the 17th century; his realistic views of cattle, goats and sheep in the gentle sunshine of southern landscapes were much copied in Germany and Holland until the early 19th century. His family left their home in the Palatinate c. 1637, fleeing the Thirty Years War, and moved to Amsterdam c. 1640. There, Roos trained (1647-51) in history painting with Guilliam Dujardin (1597-after 1647), in landscape with Cornelis de Bie and in portraiture with Barent Graat. However, the younger Italian-inspired landscape painters Nicolaes Berchem and Karel Dujardin were to prove more influential on Roos's development of the pastoral idyll. He left Amsterdam in 1651-2; in 1653 he was working in... Read full biography
Johan Heinrich Roos was the most important German animalier of the 17th century; his realistic views of cattle, goats and sheep in the gentle sunshine of southern landscapes were much copied in Germany and Holland until the early 19th century. His family left their home in the Palatinate c. 1637, fleeing the Thirty Years War, and moved to Amsterdam c. 1640. There, Roos trained (1647-51) in history painting with Guilliam Dujardin (1597-after 1647), in landscape with Cornelis de Bie and in portraiture with Barent Graat. However, the younger Italian-inspired landscape painters Nicolaes Berchem and Karel Dujardin were to prove more influential on Roos's development of the pastoral idyll. He left Amsterdam in 1651-2; in 1653 he was working in Mainz, and from 1654 to 1659 he was employed at the court of Landgrave Ernest of Hesse in Rheinfels, where he painted a portrait of A... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeA family of shepherds and their flock in a mountain landscape
Johann Heinrich Roos Auction: 10/15/2013Lot: 569Subscribe or get free alerts
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeA peasant family and their animals resting by classical ruins
Johann Heinrich Roos Auction: 12/05/2007Lot: 339Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeA pastoral landscape with a sleeping herdsman, cattle, goats and sheep, a fountain and architectural ruins beyond
Johann Heinrich Roos Auction: 04/28/2016Lot: 107Subscribe or get free alerts
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