Animalia (Animals): Ram and sheep, Unknown, etcher, After mid 17th century, etching, Nicolaes Berchem (1620-83) was the son and presumably pupil of Pieter Claesz, a Haarlem painter of down-to-earth still lives. He also studied with a variety of artists, including Jan van Goyen, and became a prominent member of the Haarlem artistic community, on one occasion travelling to Germany with his famous fellow townsman, Jacob van Ruisdael. The last decade of his life was spent in Amsterdam. Berchem painted some northern forest landscapes of a type which this training and milieu might lead one to expect. The majority of his work however is Italianate, either inspired by an undocumented visit to Italy, which can only have occurred between 1651 and 1653, or by exposure to the work of returning Italian-influenced artists such as Cornelis van Poelenburgh. In the course of his career, Berchem completed some 500 paintings and 80 etchings.
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