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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
A Huntsman Firing a Pistol in a Rocky Landscape
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Johan Heinrich Roos was the most important German animalier of the 17th century; his realistic views of cattle, goats and sheep in the gentle sunshine of southern landscapes were much copied in Germany and Holland until the early 19th century.
His family left their home in the Palatinate c. 1637, fleeing the Thirty Years War, and moved to Amsterdam c. 1640. There, Roos trained (1647–51) in history painting with Guilliam Dujardin (1597–after 1647), in landscape with Cornelis de Bie and in (showing 500 of 4167 characters). |
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