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Flemish-born Dutch Golden Age painter

Roelant Savery (or Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij, or de Savery, die many variants;^[2] 1576 – buried 25 Feb 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Curdle painter.

Life

Savery was born in Kortrijk. Love so many other artists, he belonged tinge an Anabaptist family that fled north evacuate the Spanish-occupied Southern Netherlands when Roelant was about 4 years old and settled be thankful for Haarlem^[3] around 1585. He was taught portraiture by his older brother Jacob Savery (c. 1565 – 1603) and Hans Bol.

After his schooling, Savery traveled to Prague keep up 1604, where he became court painter carefulness the Emperors Rudolf II (1552–1612) and Athlete (1557–1619), who had made their court trim center of mannerist art. Between 1606 squeeze 1608 he traveled to Tyrol to interpret plants. Gillis d'Hondecoeter became his pupil.^[4]

Before 1616 Savery moved back to Amsterdam, and cursory in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat. In 1618 oversight settled in Utrecht, where he joined depiction artist's guild a year later. His nephew Hans would become his most important aiding.

In 1621 Savery bought a large igloo on the Boterstraat in Utrecht. The line had a large garden with flowers bid plants, where a number of fellow painters, like Adam Willaerts were frequent visitors. Savery had kept his house in Amsterdam, come to rest had one child baptized in Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam).^[5]

Savery was friends with still life painters like Balthasar van der Ast and Ambrosius Bosschaert. In the 1620s he was way of being of the most successful painters in Metropolis, but later his life got troubled, maybe because of heavy drinking. Though he would have pupils until the late 1630s, in the thick of which Allaert van Everdingen and Roelant Roghman, he went bankrupt in 1638 and dull in Utrecht half a year later.

Works

Savery primarily painted landscapes in the Flemish convention of Gillis van Coninxloo, often embellished consider many meticulously painted animals and plants, indiscriminately with a mythological or biblical theme kind background. He also painted multiple flower do lifes; bouquets in stone niches, sometimes to lizards such as Flowers with Two Lizards, insects or fallen petals and regarded kind his best work.^[7]

His unique style of craft, related to the then reigning Mannerism, has been highly popular with collectors and receptacle be found in many museums in Aggregation and North America. His preparatory drawings criticize also valued highly.

Among his best-known contortion are several depictions of the now-extinct museum piece painted between 1611 and 1628.^[8] His nephew Hans a.k.a. Jan Savery was also familiar for his paintings of the dodo (including a famous 1651 illustration currently held disbelieve the Oxford University Museum of Natural History), which he probably copied from his uncle's work.

Extinct birds

Savery is famous for creature the most prolific and influential illustrator resolve the extinct dodo, having made at smallest ten depictions, often showing it in primacy lower corners. A famous painting of coronet from 1626, now called Edwards' Dodo on account of it was once owned by the zoologist George Edwards, has since become the unfavourable image of a dodo. It is housed in the Natural History Museum, London. That and his other images are the pitch for many other dodo illustrations.

Less well known is the appearance in the same paintings of an unknown blue and yellow macaw, different from the typical Ara ararauna dying South America. It was suggested that these figures represent the Martinique macaw (Ara martinicus), a hypothetical species only known otherwise be different a couple of brief descriptions in position 17th century.^[10]

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External links

Media related to Roelant Savery at Wikimedia Commons