Hendrick AvercampNetherlandish, 1585–1634Enjoying the Ice
May one see it?
Unknown
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- SK-A-3247
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
Meanwhile, in the life of Hendrick Avercamp
The whole life1607–1608 · Workplace
Amsterdam
1608
From Amsterdam to Kampen, for good
Having trained in Amsterdam with the Danish-born portraitist Pieter Isaacsz and perhaps with David Vinckboons, a follower of Bruegel the Elder, Avercamp moved to Kampen in 1608 (other accounts say 1613) and lived there until his death. He probably painted in the studio from sketches made in winter, and sold his watercolour-tinted drawings as finished pictures for collectors' albums.
1608–1634 · Workplace
Kampen
1621
Birth of his nephew Barent, a future imitator
In 1621 (other accounts say 1612) the painter's nephew Barent Avercamp was born; he too became a painter and imitated his uncle's style. Hendrick had several pupils but founded no school of his own.
