Dirck van Bergen

Shepherds with cattle

Dirck van Bergen (1645, Haarlem – c. 1700, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Adriaen van de Velde, who copied his style very well.[1] He was a popular man who spent his money as easily as he earned it, and spent some time in England, but died in Haarlem.[1]

According to the RKD his work later influenced Wilhelm von Kobell.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b (in Dutch) Dirk van Bergen Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ Dirck van Bergen in the RKD
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