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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Following a familiar pattern for the time, Abraham Begeyn entered the Leiden Guild in 1655 and worked in cities across the Dutch Republic before travelling to England in the early 1670s. Whilst in England he produced several paintings for Ham House in Surrey. He is known principally as a painter of Italianate landscapes, but also produced a number of close studies of flora and fauna that recall the so-called forest floor' scenes epitomised by his countryman Otto Marseus van Schrieck. This picture draws on both of these well-established types, combining the close study of nature in the foreground with an idealised prospect glimpsed in the background. Although it is uncertain when, or for whom, this painting was made, it is the kind of image that would have found a limited but enthusiastic audience in late seventeenth-century England. Begeyn had returned to the Low countries by 1683, when he joined the Hague painters' confraternity. He died in Berlin in 1697, having spent nine years in the city as court painter to the Elector Brandenburg. | Subjects: | still life; animal (goat); landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Begeyn, Abraham (Dutch painter, born 1637 or 1638, died 1697) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8536... | Go to resource |
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