Allaert van Everdingen
Village in winter with many skaters on ice
Over het schilderij
Village in winter with many skaters on ice, both in the foreground and in the background. A farm house is visible to the left and a church tower to the right. Aquarel drawing of size 180 x 305 mm, brush in grey ink, paper with water mark, in verso text description in German from the last auction (1931): “Dorf im winter mit vielen schlittschulaufern im Vordergrund und in der Ferne”. Monogrammed “A.V.E” in bottom
Over de kunstenaar
Allaert van Everdingen (1621 -1675), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint. Van Everdingen was born at Alkmaar, the son of a government clerk. He and his older brothers, the painters Jan and Caesar van Everdingen, according to Arnold Houbraken, were taught by Roelandt Savery at Utrecht. Allaert moved in 1645 to Haarlem, where he studied under Pieter de Molijn. In February of that year he married Janneke Cornelisdr. Their first child, Cornelis, was born a year later. Allart finally settled about 1657 in Amsterdam, where he died in 1675.