| European Watercolors — Johannes Bronkhorst |
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Johannes Bronkhorst |
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Medium: Original, Signed, Watercolor on vellum Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches Dutch painter and watercolorist. Born in Leyden, he began his career as a pastry cook. At the beginning of 1670 he left for Hoorn where he specialized in fine acquarelles on parchment, primarily of insects and flowers. He died at Hoorn in either 1726 or 1727. Although sometimes confused today with another of his contemporaries who also pained birds, Johannes Bronkhorst or Bronckhorst was considered a great talent even in the Eighteenth Century. Pilkington in his pioneer attempt at a biographical dictionary of painters in the early Nineteenth Century stated that he was the most eminent painter of his time in watercolors. His subjects were birds and animals of all kinds which he copied after nature with uncommon life, exactness, and expression. |
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