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Karel Dujardin BIOGRAPHY
1622 Amsterdam, Holland - 1678 Venice, Italy. Known for: Religious, allegorical, portrait and genre painting, engraving.
Karel Dujardin was a painter, watercolorists, engraver and draughtsman of religious and allegorical subjects as well as portraits, genre scenes and landscapes. Biographers are unable to agree on the... Read full biography
Karel Dujardin was a painter, watercolorists, engraver and draughtsman of religious and allegorical subjects as well as portraits, genre scenes and landscapes. Biographers are unable to agree on the exact date and place of Dujardin's birth. Although most authors give Amsterdam as his place of birth... Read full biography
Karel Dujardin was a painter, watercolorists, engraver and draughtsman of religious and allegorical subjects as well as portraits, genre scenes and landscapes. Biographers are unable to agree on the exact date and place of Dujardin's birth. Although most authors give Amsterdam as his place of birth in either 1634 or 1635, still others give his year of birth as 1622. According to Houbraken, Dujardin was a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem or Paulus Potter. He was also trained by van Laar and Le Bamboche... Read full biography
Karel Dujardin was a painter, watercolorists, engraver and draughtsman of religious and allegorical subjects as well as portraits, genre scenes and landscapes. Biographers are unable to agree on the exact date and place of Dujardin's birth. Although most authors give Amsterdam as his place of birth in either 1634 or 1635, still others give his year of birth as 1622. According to Houbraken, Dujardin was a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem or Paulus Potter. He was also trained by van Laar and Le Bamboche in Italy. He is believed to have joined the Schildersbent, the Netherlandish artists society founded in Rome in 1623, which gave him the nickname of Bokkbaart due to his goatee beard. The Italians appreciated and valued Dujardin's pictures and were... Read full biography
Karel Dujardin was a painter, watercolorists, engraver and draughtsman of religious and allegorical subjects as well as portraits, genre scenes and landscapes. Biographers are unable to agree on the exact date and place of Dujardin's birth. Although most authors give Amsterdam as his place of birth in either 1634 or 1635, still others give his year of birth as 1622. According to Houbraken, Dujardin was a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem or Paulus Potter. He was also trained by van Laar and Le Bamboche in Italy. He is believed to have joined the Schildersbent, the Netherlandish artists society founded in Rome in 1623, which gave him the nickname of Bokkbaart due to his goatee beard. The Italians appreciated and valued Dujardin's pictures and were willing to pay high prices for his works. Despite his success in Italy, Dujardin returned to Holland around 1655.... Read full biography
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Karel Dujardin was a painter, watercolorists, engraver and draughtsman of religious and allegorical subjects as well as portraits, genre scenes and landscapes.
Biographers are unable to agree on the exact date and place of Dujardin's birth. Although most authors give Amsterdam as his place of birth in either 1634 or 1635, still others give his year of birth as 1622.
According to Houbraken, Dujardin was a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem or Paulus Potter. He was also trained by van Laar and Le Bamboche in Italy. He is believed to have joined the Schildersbent, the Netherlandish artists society founded in Rome in 1623, which gave him the nickname of Bokkbaart due to his goatee beard. The Italians appreciated and valued Duja...But wait, there's more...
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