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Description: | Backhuysen was born in 1630, and his early life was spent at Emden in Germany. In 1649-50 he moved to Amsterdam where he worked as a merchant's clerk and calligrapher before training as a painter with Everdingen and Hendrik Dubbels. In 1663 he became a member of the Amsterdam Guild. He was much influenced by Willem van de Velde, after whose departure for England in 1672-3 he became the leading marine painter in Amsterdam. The inclusion of portrait like figures on the shoreline became a common feature of his later paintings, several of which include portraits of the artist and his family. A characteristic of his later work is a brightly lit strip of sea between the dark foreground and sky. This device is evident in the Preston work and therefore marks it as possibly being from Backhuysen's later period. | Subjects: | marine | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Backhuysen, Ludolf, I (Dutch painter, calligrapher, and printmaker, 1630-1708) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8683... | Go to resource |
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