Melchior d hondecoeter biography

Dutch painter (1636–1695)

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

Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈmɛlxijɔrdəˈɦɔndəˌkutər]; c.

Melchior de Hondecoeter was born in Utrecht in into a family of painters of Flemish origin, among whom his grandfather was the landscape painter Gillis.

Melchior de Hondecoeter was born in Utrecht in into a family of painters of Flemish origin, among whom his grandfather was the landscape painter Gillis.

Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam.

Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam.

Born into an illustrious family of landscape and animal painters of Flemish origins that included his great-grandfather, grandfather, father.

Melchior de Hondecoeter was a Baroque painter of the Dutch school who specialized in bird studies.

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