Johann Melchior Roos
Artworks: 18
Baroque Italianate landscapes with animals
Johann Melchior Roos, was a German Baroque painter. According to the RKD He was born in Heidelberg and learned to paint from his father, the landscape painter Johann Heinrich Roos. In 1682-1685 he studied at the drawing academy of the Confrerie Pictura in the Hague, and in 1686 he travelled to Rome where he worked with his brother Philipp Peter Roos (Rosa di Tivoli) in Italy. He is known for Italianate landscapes with animals and portraits.
Relationship Network
Parent child
- Johann Heinrich Roos Parent
Siblings
- Philipp Peter Roos Younger
Artworks by this artist (18 total)
- Lying bear to the left
- A shepherd riding a horse and leading his flock in a landscape 1706
- Nach rechts schreitende Löwin
- Four Lifesized Bear’s Heads ca 1710-1725
- Brustbild eines Mannes mit Mütze und langem Haar im Dreiviertelprofil nach links ca 1683
- Three tiger heads
- Cattle drinking
- Herabschreitende Löwin nach rechts
- Eine stehende und eine liegende Ziege
- A Goatherd Watching his Animals 1683
- A panther’s back
- Landscape with a Lion Family 1716
- Landskab med køer og geder
- Three doe heads
- A bear strangling a dog
- Liegender Hund nach rechts, oben Variante des Kopfes
- Männliches Bildnis 1684
- Shepherd and Flock in a Rocky Valley 1706