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Melchior dhondecoeter biography

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Melchior d'Hondecoeter

Dutch painter (1636–1695)

Not to be confused with Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter or Gillis d'Hondecoeter.

Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈmɛlxijɔrdəˈɦɔndəˌkutər]; c. 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutchanimalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar.

Biography

Being the grandson of the painter Gillis d'Hondecoeter and the son of Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter, whose sister Josina married Jan Baptist Weenix, he was brought up in an artistic milieu.[1] Melchior's cousin Jan Weenix told Arnold Houbraken that in his youth Melchior was extremely religious, pr

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(b Utrecht, 1636; d Amsterdam, 3 Apr. 1695). Dutch painter, the best-known member of a family of artists. He was the Netherlands' most renowned painter of birds, winning an international reputation with his vigorous and brightly coloured canvases. They show both domestic and exotic birds, often in vigorous movement and sometimes pointing a moral. Hondecoeter also painted still lifes. He was a prolific artist and is represented in many museums. His father, Gysbert (1604–53), was also a bird painter, and his grandfather, Gillis (d1638), was a landscapist. Melchior trained with his father and with his uncle, Jan Baptist Weenix; he worked in Utrecht, The Hague, and Amsterdam.

Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)

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    Melchior D'HONDECOETER

    Utrecht 1636 - Amsterdam 1695

    Biography

    Born into an illustrious family of landscape and animal painters of Flemish origins that included his great-grandfather, grandfather, father, uncle and cousin, Melchior d’Hondecoeter became the leading Dutch painter of birds in the second half of the 17th century. His work was renowned for its lifelike and colourful depictions of avian subjects - both common and exotic types - painted with considerable accuracy. He received his artistic training from his father Gijsbert Gillisz. d’Hondecoeter and his uncle Jan Baptist Weenix in the 1650s, and became a member of the ‘Confrerie Pictura’, the artist’s association in Utrecht. By August 1658 he had moved to The Hague, joining the artist’s guild there in 1659. (His original presentation piece was a seascape, but he withdrew it in favour of an animal painting.) In 1662 Hondecoeter became the head of the ‘Confrerie Pictura’ in The Hague. By the beginning of the following year, however, the newly-married artist had settled in Amsterdam, where he was to live and work

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