Winter Landscape with Hunter and Dogs

landscape

After his return to Antwerp from Italy around 1616-17, the eclectically oriented Jan Wildens played a great role as a painter of backgrounds in the work of other artists. His production would until his death continue to be based to an important extent on filling in the backgrounds of history pictures by leading Antwerp masters. Besides Rubens, these included Abraham Janssens, Cornelis de Vos, Gerard Seghers and Theodoor Rombouts.

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About the Artist

Jan Wildens

1586 – 1653

Flemish landscape painter born in Antwerp, where he became a master in 1604. He is best known for painting landscape backgrounds for Rubens and for many artists in his circle, but his finest independent work - Winter Landscape with a Hunter (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, 1624) - shows he was an accomplished master in his own right.

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