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WOUWERMAN, PHILIP (1618-1668)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WOUWERMAN, See also:PHILIP (1618-1668) , Dutch painter of See also:battle and See also:hunting scenes, was See also:born at See also:Haarlem in May 1619. He learned the elements of his See also:art from his See also:father, See also:Paul Joosten Wouwerman, an See also:historical painter of moderate ability, and he then studied with the landscape painter, See also:Jan Wynants (162o–1679). Returning to Haarlem, he became a member of its gild of painters in 1642, and there he died in May 1668. About Boo pictures were enumerated in See also:John See also:Smith's See also:Catalogue raisonne (184o) as the See also:work of Philip Wouwerman, and in C. Hofstede de See also:Groot's enlarged Catalogue, vol. ii. (See also:loop), the number exceeds 1200; but probably many of these are the productions of his See also:brothers See also:Peter (1623–1682) and Jan (1629–1666), and of hismany other imitators. His See also:authentic See also:works are distinguished by See also:great spirit and are infinitely varied, though dealing recurrently with See also:cavalry battle-pieces, military encampments, cavalcades, and hunting or hawking parties. He is equally excellent in his vivacious treatment of figures, in his skilful See also:animal See also:painting, and in his admirable and appropriate landscape backgrounds. Three different styles have been observed as characteristic of the various periods of his art. His earlier works are marked by the prevalence of a foxy-See also:brown colouring, and by a tendency to angularity in draughtsmanship; the productions of his See also:middle See also:period have greater purity and brilliancy; and his latest and greatest pictures possess more of force and breadth, and are full of a delicate silvery-See also:grey See also:tone. See the Catalogue raisonne of the works of the most eminent Dutch and Flemish Painters of the 17th See also:Century, by De Groot, vol. ii. (1909), referred to above.

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