Roeland Savery - Artist Info

About Roeland Savery

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Roelant Saverij
  • 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...

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