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Description: | The winter-landscape with a bustling crowd of people on a frozen river, an ice-locked boat near the river bank, a tree on the left, and a townscape dissolving into the hazy distance is reminiscent of the tradition of Hendrick Avercamp, the first to paint diversions on ice in the northern Netherlands. Some of the figures play kolf, a precursor of modern golf, which was part of the quintessential image of a winter's day in seventeenth-century Holland. The signature 'Avercamp' is a later addition. The painting may be by a his nephew, Berent Avercamp. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Avercamp, Berent Petersz. (Dutch painter, born 1612 or 1613, died 1679) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to circle of Neer, Aert van der (Dutch painter, 1603-1677) Previously attributed to Avercamp, Hendrick (Dutch painter, 1585-1634) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8565... | Go to resource |
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