Hercules Seghers | |
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 Hercules Seghers, Town with four towers, c. 1631; etching & drypoint. Cincinnati Art Museum. A typically unusual etching: printed in green on coloured cotton, and worked over with grey and black washes. | |
| Born | Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers c. 1589 |
| Died | c. 1638 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Known for | Painting, Printmaking, Landscape art |
| Movement | Dutch Golden Age |
Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers (c. 1589 – c. 1638) was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age.[1] He has been called "the most inspired, experimental and original landscapist" of his period and an even more innovative printmaker.[2]
- ^ Segers is in fact the more common form in contemporary documents, and was used by the painter himself (modern use is about equally divided between the two): Neil MacLaren, The Dutch School, 1600–1800, Volume I, National Gallery Catalogues, p. 418-20, 1991, National Gallery, London, ISBN 0-947645-99-3
- ^ Slive, 183