Herman Saftleven the Younger was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Born in Rotterdam, he lived most of his life (1632-1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607-1681) and Abraham Saftleven were both painters. The former was even better known as a painter, specializing in genre scenes, while Herman was known for his landscapes of river scenes as well as of persons traveling through woods. His father, Herman Saftleven I was a painter in Rotterdam, who died by 1627.

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  • Herman Saftleven the Younger was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Born in Rotterdam, he lived most of his life (1632-1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607-1681) and Abraham Saftleven were both painters. The former was even better known as a painter, specializing in genre scenes, while Herman was known for his landscapes of river scenes as well as of persons traveling through woods. His father, Herman Saftleven I was a painter in Rotterdam, who died by 1627. One of Herman II’s daughters, Sara Saftleven, born in Utrecht after 1633, also became a painter of flowers in watercolors. She married Jacob Adriaensz Broers in 1671. Herman became the dean of the Guild of St Luke in Utrecht. After a storm had destroyed most of the town in the 1670s, he sold the city a series drawings he had made of Utrecht churches before they were destroyed. In the 1680s, he was commissioned by the amateur botanist and horticulturalist Agnes Block, to draw flowers and plants at her country estate near Utrecht.
  • Herman Saftleven war ein niederländischer Maler. Saftleven, Schüler seines Vaters, bildete sich mehr nach den Antwerpener Landschaftsmalern und war seit 1633 in Utrecht ansässig. Seine mit minutiöser Feinheit ausgeführten Bilder, die in der Mehrzahl Rheinlandschaften darstellen und sich durch einen eignen bläulichen Duft auszeichnen, sind in den meisten Galerien vorhanden. Saftleven hat auch treffliche Radierungen geliefert. Sein Bruder Cornelis Saftleven war ebenfalls Maler.
  • Herman Saftleven was een Nederlands kunstschilder, graveur en tekenaar.
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  • Herman Saftleven the Younger was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Born in Rotterdam, he lived most of his life (1632-1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607-1681) and Abraham Saftleven were both painters. The former was even better known as a painter, specializing in genre scenes, while Herman was known for his landscapes of river scenes as well as of persons traveling through woods. His father, Herman Saftleven I was a painter in Rotterdam, who died by 1627.
  • Herman Saftleven war ein niederländischer Maler. Saftleven, Schüler seines Vaters, bildete sich mehr nach den Antwerpener Landschaftsmalern und war seit 1633 in Utrecht ansässig. Seine mit minutiöser Feinheit ausgeführten Bilder, die in der Mehrzahl Rheinlandschaften darstellen und sich durch einen eignen bläulichen Duft auszeichnen, sind in den meisten Galerien vorhanden. Saftleven hat auch treffliche Radierungen geliefert. Sein Bruder Cornelis Saftleven war ebenfalls Maler.
  • Herman Saftleven was een Nederlands kunstschilder, graveur en tekenaar.
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  • Herman Saftleven
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