Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Painting, Visual Artist
1636 – 1695
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Who was Melchior d'Hondecoeter?
Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter’s paintings featured geese, fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian Yellow-crested Cockatoos, an Indonesian Purple-naped Lory and Grey-headed Lovebirds from Madagascar.
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- Born
- 1636
Utrecht - Parents
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 3, 1695
Amsterdam
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on July 23, 2013
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