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BUVELOT, Quentin. (Ed.). - Albert Eckhout (1610-1666). Een Hollandse kunstenaar in Brazilië. Met bijdragen van Q. Buvelot, D.M. Teixeira, E. de Vries, Fl. Egmond, P. Mason.

Title: Albert Eckhout (1610-1666). Een Hollandse kunstenaar in Brazilië. Met bijdragen van Q. Buvelot, D.M. Teixeira, E. de Vries, Fl. Egmond, P. Mason.
Description: Zwolle, Waanders, 2004. Cloth, with dust-kacket. With 100 illustrations (50 in colours). 160 pp.Albert Eckhout (c.1610-1665) was a Dutch portrait and still life painter. Eckhout, who was born in Groningen, was among the first European artists to paint scenes from the New World. In 1636 he traveled to Dutch Brazil, where he stayed until 1644, invited by count John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen.There, he painted portraits of the natives, slaves and mulattos of Brazil in the seventeenth century, besides numerous sketches of plants and animals.

Keywords: America Brazil WIC Brazil WIC West India Company

Price: EUR 49.50 = appr. US$ 53.80 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 28033