Aert Schouman (Dordrecht, 1710 - 1792, The Hague) Dutch Scho...

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£9,250

Aert Schouman (Dordrecht, 1710 - 1792, The Hague)
Dutch School
An over door of a pheasant and a kingfisher in a landscape

Oil on canvas

Aert Schouman started his painting career as a pupil of Adriaan van der Burg to whom he was apprenticed for eight years. He came from the town of Dordrecht and was head of the Guild there from 1742 until his death. However, he moved to The Hague in 1748 becoming regent of the Drawing School there in 1751 and it is here that he really spent the majority of his working life. He is known to have been in Middelburg in 1761 and in Great Britain in 1765. His founding of the 'Confrerie' in The Hague (of which he was headman from 1752 - 62) encouraged a blossoming art scene in both Dordrecht and his adoptive city. 

Schouman specialised in pictures of birds in the manner of Hondecoeter and Weenix but with more flamboyant (and typically 18th Century) colouring and composition. But he was also a prodigious talent in many other areas such as glass engraving and printmaking, as well as a collector and dealer. His most celebrated works of this type are his depictions of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphosis.

His thriving studio produced a number of talented Dordrecht painters and his pupils included Joris Ponse, Jan van Os, Jacobus Vonck, and Martinus Schouman.

Provenance:
Private collection, The Netherlands

Dimensions:
(Canvas) 15 in. (H) x 36 in. (W)
(Frame) 21 in. (H) x 39 in. (W)