Barend Hendrik Thier
Painter of landscapes and botanical watercolours
A painter, etcher and watercolourist, Barend Hendrik Thier was born near Münster and studied with his brother, the glass painter Evert Their. (Another brother, Hendrik Their, was a draughtsman and art teacher.) Barend Thier was active mainly as a painter of decorative wall-hangings and landscapes, but also made finished gouache and watercolour drawings as independent works of art for sale to collectors. In the 1780s Thier also produced a series of 155 botanical watercolours of rare plants and flowers, cultivated at an estate garden known as ‘Amerika’, outside Leiden, which were commissioned from the artist by the owner of the garden, Isaac van Buren. A number of sketchbooks by Thier have survived - in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, the Teylers Museum in Haarlem and the Louvre - while other drawings by the artist are in today in the collections of the British Museum, the Rijksprentenkabinet in Amsterdam, the Kunsthalle in Bremen, the Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Graphische Sammlung in Frankfurt, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Gemeentearchief and the University Library in Leiden, and elsewhere
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Master student
- Hendrik Meyer Master
- Pieter Pietersz. Barbiers Master
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Parent child
- Hermanus Koekkoek Child
Artworks by this artist
- Bruggetje over beek bij bomen
- Windmolens in vlak land
- Herders met vee
- Landscape with covered waggon
- Rijpe haver
- Twee paarden
- Rijpe rogge
- Zittend meisje met mand
- Two cows near a pond
- Two tropical birds 2
- Rijpe tarwe
- Theatre Scene in a City Garden 1753 - 1811
- Two tropical birds
- Zandweg tussen bomen met hooiwagen
- Staande vrouw
- Liggende koe
- Bloeiende aardappel
- Bloeiende boekweit
- Toren aan een vijver
- Pioenroos