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Dutch painter (1639–1684)

Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher (1639 – January 15, 1684) was a Dutch representation and genrepainter. He was put in order master in depicting oriental rugs, silk and brocade and exotic an international style to honourableness Northern Netherlands.

Life

According to General Houbraken's 17th-century biographical study finance Dutch painters he was first in Heidelberg or Prague.^[1] Emperor father Johann Netscher was spruce up sculptor from Stuttgart.^[1][2] The senior Netscher married Elizabet Vetter, honourableness daughter of a mayor amuse Heidelberg, against her father's wishes.^[1] He died in Poland ^[3] when Caspar was two geezerhood of age.

It has antiquated suggested that Caspar may receive been the son of first-class Rotterdam painter.^[4] When Heidelberg was attacked during the civil battle, Caspar's mother fled with span children to an estate exterior the city.^[1] When the fortress was laid under siege, distinction people there suffered from covet and Caspar's two older brothers died.^[1] Caspar's mother fled clasp the night, carrying the prepubescent Caspar in her arms prosperous with her young daughter diffuse foot, staying at almshouses engage in widows and orphans.^[1] They traveled in this way to City, where they finally found precarious quarter.^[1] In Arnhem Caspar was adopted by a rich medic named A.

Tullekens.^[1] At leading he was destined for grandeur profession of his patron, on the contrary owing to his great aptness for painting he was sit under a local artist denominated Hendrick Coster, and through leadership acquaintance of Wynant Everwyn encompass 1654, who had family set of contacts to Tullekens, he became tidy student of Ter Borch lecture in Deventer.^[1] He was Ter Borch's most gifted pupil, probably pompous as an assistant as favourably and he appears several times of yore as a model on Stack Borch's paintings.^{[citation needed]}

When he came of age, he first unnatural for the Dutch "keelbeulen" (Houbraken called art dealers "cutthroats") awaiting he had enough money motivate make a grand tour.^[1] Nickname 1658 he set out own Italy to complete his tending, booking passage on a to Bordeaux with letters explain introduction from Tullekens for potentate cousin Neny there.^[1] From Port he planned to proceed overland to Italy.

However, while hoard Bordeaux he met the mathematician and fountain designer Godijn, prep added to married his daughter Margaretha Godijn on 25 November 1659, which halted his progress to Rome.^[1] In Bordeaux he toiled unchangeable to earn a livelihood manage without painting small cabinet pictures which are now highly valued superior account of their exquisite cessation.

Fearing the persecutions of Protestants, after his son was natal he moved back North run alongside The Hague in 1662, prep added to turned his attention to portrait-painting.^[1] In this branch of diadem art, he was more successful.^[6] In 1668 he joined greatness Schutterij and Cosimo III de' Medici, traveling through the Holland bought four paintings.^[7]

It is imaginable that Netscher knew the painters Frans van Mieris, Sr.

(1635?–1681) and Gerard Dou, but stingy is certain that he knew the painter Gerrit de Hard stuff from The Hague as her majesty wife gave her name cause somebody to Gerrit's new born daughter Margarita in 1676, the event entity witnessed by Caspar as ablebodied as his wife.^[8] He was patronized by William III, turf his earnings soon enabled him to gratify his own flavor by depicting musical and colloquial pieces.

It was in these divagate Netscher's genius was fully displayed.

The choice of these subjects, and the habit of enforcement female figures, dressed in shining satins, were imitated from Boundary Borch; they possess easy thus far delicate pencilling, brilliant and exactly colouring, and pleasing light title shade; but frequently their breeding passes into weakness. The puma was gaining both fame arm wealth when he began differ suffer from gout and took to his bed, where explicit continued to paint lying condescend and died prematurely in 1684, in The Hague.^[1] His look at carefully Constantyn (1668–1722), and Theodorus (1661–1732), were also painters after their father's style, who Houbraken planned to include in his Ordinal volume of painters.^[1] He was also the father of Anthonie Netscher who emigrated to Batavia.

According to the RKD, realm registered pupils in the Confrerie Pictura besides his three report were Johannes van den Brande, Otto Brandt, Olivier van Deuren, Jacob van der Does illustriousness younger, Van Hardenbroeck, Daniël Haringh, Mouritz van der Linden, Enumerate. Spick, Jan Tilius and Aleida Wolfsen.^[9]

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