Everdingen – Davies, Alice I. Allart van Everdingen (1621-1675). First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape. A Monograph with a  CATALOGUE  RAISONNÉ  OF  PAINTINGS , together with Frederic J. Duparc. 2001. 4to. 312 pp. text + 467 (14 in color) plates + ills. Orig. cloth. – AETAS AUREA XV.

“ This study of Allart van Everdingen … draws particular attention to his significant contribution to the history of art

as  the  earliest  painter  of  the  landscape  of  Scandinavia .

… In 1644 he traveled to Norway and Sweden where he made sketches of several identified sites. After his return to the Netherlands  he  specialized  in  Nordic  scenes , characterized by craggy mountains and crashing waterfalls, quiet fjords or rivers, huge boulders, fir trees, and log cabins. Here, the influence of his second-named teacher Roelant Savery is discernible in the earliest works. These paintings were eagerly collected by his countrymen and emulated by other artists, most significantly by Holland's leading landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael, who himself had no direct experience with the foreign subjects being portrayed.

By and large, this monograph text is a revision of the author's Harvard dissertation (1973; published in 1978), with the artist's biography substantially enlarged. The examination of his imitators and followers is expanded to include his pupil Gerard Edema, who was active in England before ca.1700, as well as many other artists in the Dutch, Germanic, and Scandinavian schools up to 1850 …he catalogue of the 179 authentic works is organized by subject

– 22 marines , 146 Scandinavian landscapes , and 11 Netherlandish landscapes –

with the dated pictures listed first and the remainder presented in chronological order. The other three sections comprise 22 "attributed paintings" not yet examined at firsthand by the authors, 35 "rejected paintings" in public collections, and 5 paintings lost from public collections, for which no reproduction exists.  All  of  the  catalogue  entries , save the five in the last section,  are  reproduced  in black and white plates. In addition, many of the artist's drawings and etchings appear among the 231 comparative illustrations that accompany the monograph text.  – The 1709 sale catalogue of Everdingen's painting collection is duplicated in an appendix. Complete bibliographies and indexes also make this a definitive reference book.

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