About this artwork
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artist:Hendrick Avercamp (1585 - 1634) Dutch
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title:River Scene with Skaters
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Pen, brown ink, red chalk and coloured washes on paper (tiny hole in lower margin repaired)
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measurements:11.20 x 19.30 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 1122
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Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp
Avercamp was among the first Dutch artists to specialise in painting winter scenes. His paintings were much admired and commanded high prices during his life. Avercamp was born a deaf-mute and may have lived reclusively because of this. He trained in Amsterdam with Pieter Isaacsz, an established...