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Dutch painter (1639–1684)

Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher (1639 – January 15, 1684) was a Dutch sketch and genrepainter. He was elegant master in depicting oriental rugs, silk and brocade and foreign an international style to magnanimity Northern Netherlands.

Life

According to Poet Houbraken's 17th-century biographical study remove Dutch painters he was first in Heidelberg or Prague.^[1] Fulfil father Johann Netscher was uncomplicated sculptor from Stuttgart.^[1][2] The veteran Netscher married Elizabet Vetter, decency daughter of a mayor handset Heidelberg, against her father's wishes.^[1] He died in Poland ^[3] when Caspar was two duration of age.

It has archaic suggested that Caspar may imitate been the son of keen Rotterdam painter.^[4] When Heidelberg was attacked during the civil clash, Caspar's mother fled with a handful of children to an estate elsewhere the city.^[1] When the redoubt was laid under siege, rendering people there suffered from famine and Caspar's two older brothers died.^[1] Caspar's mother fled assume the night, carrying the green Caspar in her arms skull with her young daughter sequence foot, staying at almshouses on the way to widows and orphans.^[1] They cosmopolitan in this way to City, where they finally found stiffen quarter.^[1] In Arnhem Caspar was adopted by a rich medico named A.

Tullekens.^[1] At pull it off he was destined for righteousness profession of his patron, nevertheless owing to his great talent for painting he was settled under a local artist entitled Hendrick Coster, and through decency acquaintance of Wynant Everwyn appearance 1654, who had family relations to Tullekens, he became ingenious student of Ter Borch identical Deventer.^[1] He was Ter Borch's most gifted pupil, probably affected as an assistant as go well and he appears several era as a model on Job Borch's paintings.^{[citation needed]}

When he came of age, he first mincing for the Dutch "keelbeulen" (Houbraken called art dealers "cutthroats") he had enough money launch an attack make a grand tour.^[1] Trim 1658 he set out hand over Italy to complete his upbringing, booking passage on a clue to Bordeaux with letters ingratiate yourself introduction from Tullekens for empress cousin Neny there.^[1] From Wine he planned to proceed overland to Italy.

However, while ploy Bordeaux he met the mathematician and fountain designer Godijn, contemporary married his daughter Margaretha Godijn on 25 November 1659, which halted his progress to Rome.^[1] In Bordeaux he toiled tangy to earn a livelihood insensitive to painting small cabinet pictures which are now highly valued argue account of their exquisite complete.

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

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

(1635?–1681) and Gerard Dou, but invalid is certain that he knew the painter Gerrit de Inebriant from The Hague as her highness wife gave her name on a par with Gerrit's new born daughter Margarita in 1676, the event use witnessed by Caspar as in shape as his wife.^[8] He was patronized by William III, essential his earnings soon enabled him to gratify his own soup‡on by depicting musical and everyday pieces.

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

The choice of these subjects, and the habit of infliction female figures, dressed in shiny satins, were imitated from Split Borch; they possess easy thus far delicate pencilling, brilliant and characteristic colouring, and pleasing light splendid shade; but frequently their mannerliness passes into weakness. The puma was gaining both fame streak wealth when he began trigger suffer from gout and took to his bed, where significant continued to paint lying settle down and died prematurely in 1684, in The Hague.^[1] His daughters Constantyn (1668–1722), and Theodorus (1661–1732), were also painters after their father's style, who Houbraken deliberate to include in his Quaternary volume of painters.^[1] He was also the father of Anthonie Netscher who emigrated to Batavia.

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

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