Jan Hackaert
Painted Italianate landscapes and backgrounds
Jan Hackaert (1628–1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He travelled in Germany and Switzerland, and painted and sketched mostly landscapes. He would sketch miners at work in the mountains, and on more than one occasion this caused him trouble because the workers couldn't understand what he was doing. They felt he was either a spy or hexing them and made a complaint. Because Italianate landscapes were so fashionable, his Lake Zurich was mistaken for an Italian lake for years. He painted the landscape backgrounds for other painters, such as Nicolas Berchem and Adriaen van de Velde.
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- An Avenue in a Wood c.1675
- Deer Hunt in a Forest after 1660
- The Avenue of Birches 1660 - 1685
- Forest Landscape with Stag Hunt ca. between 1665 and 1670
- Parkanlage mit Schloß und Springbrunnen, vorne zwei Reiter und einige andere Figuren
- An Extensive Landscape With Travellers, Fishermen And Cattle Drovers On A Path With A Roman Bridge Beyond
- Landscape with Cattle Drivers 1660 - 1685
- L’Allée aux frênes 1670
- Mountainous Landscape with Rider at Sunset 1670-1674
- The Wooded Banks of a River 1660s
- An extensive river landscape with travellers
- Hunters in the Woods 1660 - 1685
- The Lake of Zurich c. 1660
- Mountainous Landscape 1660 - 1685
- A Waterfall in Switzerland with a Resting Wayfarer ca. 1655