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PHILIP WOUWERMAN (1618-1668)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIP See also:WOUWERMAN (1618-1668)  , Dutch painter of See also:battle and See also:hunting scenes, was See also:born at See also:Haarlem in May 1619 . He learned the elements of his See also:art from his See also:father, See also:Paul Joosten See also:Wouwerman, an See also:historical painter of moderate ability, and he then studied with the landscape painter, See also:Jan Wynants (162o–1679) . Returning to Haarlem, he became a member of its gild of painters in 1642, and there he died in May 1668 . About Boo pictures were enumerated in See also:John See also:Smith's See also:Catalogue raisonne (184o) as the See also:work of See also:Philip Wouwerman, and in C . Hofstede de See also:Groot's enlarged Catalogue, vol. ii . (See also:loop), the number exceeds 1200; but probably many of these are the productions of his See also:brothers See also:Peter (1623–1682) and Jan (1629–1666), and of hismany other imitators . His See also:authentic See also:works are distinguished by See also:great spirit and are infinitely varied, though dealing recurrently with See also:cavalry battle-pieces, military encampments, cavalcades, and hunting or hawking parties . He is equally excellent in his vivacious treatment of figures, in his skilful See also:animal See also:painting, and in his admirable and appropriate landscape backgrounds . Three different styles have been observed as characteristic of the various periods of his art . His earlier works are marked by the prevalence of a foxy-See also:brown colouring, and by a tendency to angularity in draughtsmanship; the productions of his See also:middle See also:period have greater purity and brilliancy; and his latest and greatest pictures possess more of force and breadth, and are full of a delicate silvery-See also:grey See also:tone . See the Catalogue raisonne of the works of the most eminent Dutch and Flemish Painters of the 17th See also:Century, by De Groot, vol. ii . (1909), referred to above .

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