Winter Scene - Hendrick Avercamp - Athena 1970 - Framed Print - 12"H x 16"W

Winter Scene - Hendrick Avercamp - Athena 1970 - Framed Print - 12"H x 16"W 

Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter.

Avercamp studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Avercamp was mute and was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen).

As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter. Avercamp's paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape.

Avercamp is famous worldwide for his winter landscapes. The passion for painting skating characters probably came from his childhood. The last quarter of the 16th century, during which Avercamp was born, was one of the coldest periods of the Little Ice Age.

Avercamp has also painted cattle and seascapes.