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| Nicolaes Berchem Italian landscape before 1683 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Landscape with nymphs and satyrs 1645 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Nicolaes Berchem View of Italian port ca. 1660-65 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Italian landscape with figures and animals - Village on a mountain plateau 1655 oil on panel Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683) was the son and presumably pupil of Pieter Claesz Berchem, a Haarlem painter of down-to-earth sill 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 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 Italianates such as Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Pieter van Laer, Jan Both and Jan Asselijn, all of whom were back home by the mid 1640s."
– curator's notes from the Royal Collection, Great Britain
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| Nicolaes Berchem Mountainous landscape with figures and animals ca. 1670-75 oil on panel Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Ruins in Italy 1658 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Italian scene with washerwomen before 1683 oil on panel Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Roman fountain with livestock and figures ca. 1645-46 oil on panel Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Herders beside Roman ruins 1661 oil on canvas Galerij Prins Willem V, The Hague |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Italianate landscape with peasants and livestock before 1683 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Landscape with ruins and travelers 1654 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Italianate landscape 1654 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Hunting party at rest among herders 1660s oil on canvas Hermitage, St Petersburg |
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| Nicolaes Berchem Southern harbour scene ca. 1657-59 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |