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Roeland Savery BIOGRAPHY
1576 Kortrijk, Holland - 1639 Utrecht, Holland. Known for: Landscape, cityscape, animal and floral still life painting, teaching.
Roelandt Savery was a Flemish painter, draftsman and printmaker. Like so many other artists, Savery had an Anabaptist family. They fled north from the Spanish occupied Southern Netherlands when... Read full biography
Roelandt Savery was a Flemish painter, draftsman and printmaker. Like so many other artists, Savery had an Anabaptist family. They fled north from the Spanish occupied Southern Netherlands when Roelant was about 4 years old and settled in Haarlem around 1585. He was taught painting by his older... Read full biography
Roelandt Savery was a Flemish painter, draftsman and printmaker. Like so many other artists, Savery had an Anabaptist family. They fled north from the Spanish occupied Southern Netherlands when Roelant was about 4 years old and settled in Haarlem around 1585. He was taught painting by his older brother Jacob Savery (c.1565-1603) in Amsterdam. After his schooling, Savery traveled to Prague around 1604, where he became court painter of the Emperors Rudolf II (1552-1612) and Mathias (1557-1619),... Read full biography
Roelandt Savery was a Flemish painter, draftsman and printmaker. Like so many other artists, Savery had an Anabaptist family. They fled north from the Spanish occupied Southern Netherlands when Roelant was about 4 years old and settled in Haarlem around 1585. He was taught painting by his older brother Jacob Savery (c.1565-1603) in Amsterdam. After his schooling, Savery traveled to Prague around 1604, where he became court painter of the Emperors Rudolf II (1552-1612) and Mathias (1557-1619), who had made their court a center of mannerist art. Between 1606-1608 he traveled to Tyrol to study plants. Before 1616 Savery moved back to Amsterdam, and in 1618 he settled in Utrecht, where he joined the artist's guild a year later. His nephew Hans... Read full biography
Roelandt Savery was a Flemish painter, draftsman and printmaker. Like so many other artists, Savery had an Anabaptist family. They fled north from the Spanish occupied Southern Netherlands when Roelant was about 4 years old and settled in Haarlem around 1585. He was taught painting by his older brother Jacob Savery (c.1565-1603) in Amsterdam. After his schooling, Savery traveled to Prague around 1604, where he became court painter of the Emperors Rudolf II (1552-1612) and Mathias (1557-1619), who had made their court a center of mannerist art. Between 1606-1608 he traveled to Tyrol to study plants. Before 1616 Savery moved back to Amsterdam, and in 1618 he settled in Utrecht, where he joined the artist's guild a year later. His nephew Hans would become his most important assistant. In 1621 Savery bought a large house on the Boter... Read full biography
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Roelandt Savery was a Flemish painter, draftsman and printmaker. Like so many other artists, Savery had an Anabaptist family. They fled north from the Spanish occupied Southern Netherlands when Roelant was about 4 years old and settled in Haarlem around 1585. He was taught painting by his older brother Jacob Savery (c.1565-1603) in Amsterdam.
After his schooling, Savery traveled to Prague around 1604, where he became court painter of the Emperors Rudolf II (1552-1612) and Mathias (1557-1619), who had made their court a center of mannerist art. Between 1606-1608 he traveled to Tyrol to study plants.
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