Landscape with Church
Johann Melchior Roos (Heidelberg 1663 - Kassel 1731)
Lot-No. 496
Proceeds : 3.800 €
Oil/wood. 59,5 x 75,5 cm. Lo. le. sign. J. M. Roos and illegibly dat. Invisible retouchings. - German animal painter from a dynasty of artists. After being taught by his father Johann Heinrich R. the young artist went to Den Haag in 1684. 1686-89 he was with his brother Philipp Peter in Rome or Tivoli. Back in Germany he lived in Nuremberg, Heidelber and Switzerland, but most of the time in Frankfurt where he also developed into a sought-after portrait painter. R. did in poverty in Kassel. Mus.: Amsterdam, Berlin (Kupferstichkab.), London (Brit. Mus.), Brunswick (Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Mus.), Frankfurt (Städel), Dresden a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, H. Jedding: Johann Heinrich Roos, Werke einer Pfälzer Tiermalerfamilie, Mainz 1998.
Johann Melchior Roos: Landscape with Church
Johann Melchior Roos (Heidelberg 1663 - Kassel 1731)
Landscape with Church
Lot-No. 496
Proceeds : 3.800 €
Oil/wood. 59,5 x 75,5 cm. Lo. le. sign. J. M. Roos and illegibly dat. Invisible retouchings. - German animal painter from a dynasty of artists. After being taught by his father Johann Heinrich R. the young artist went to Den Haag in 1684. 1686-89 he was with his brother Philipp Peter in Rome or Tivoli. Back in Germany he lived in Nuremberg, Heidelber and Switzerland, but most of the time in Frankfurt where he also developed into a sought-after portrait painter. R. did in poverty in Kassel. Mus.: Amsterdam, Berlin (Kupferstichkab.), London (Brit. Mus.), Brunswick (Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Mus.), Frankfurt (Städel), Dresden a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, H. Jedding: Johann Heinrich Roos, Werke einer Pfälzer Tiermalerfamilie, Mainz 1998.
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