Jan van Huysum Artist Hand Colored Copper Plate Printed Atelier Print:"Baroque Flowers"

Artist: Jan van Huysum
Title: Baroque Flowers
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 20 x 24 in | Image Size: 15 x 19 in
Edition | Medium: These are hand printed from plates and coloured by hand. | Paper
About the Art: Atelier Collection
About the Artist:

Jan Van Huysum was born in Amsterdam in 1682 and died in 1749.

He began by studying nature - particularly flowers - with the aim of reproducing them with the maximum possible exactness; certainly no flower-lover purchasing his work could tire of the pleasure of picking out and identifying the myriad of blooms.

Van Huysum spent a considerable amount of time at the marvellous gardens in Haarlem, where he found many splendid flowers to study and paint.

His reputation as one of the world's most accomplished floral artists spread throughout Europe during his lifetime, and purchasers of his work included the Earl of Warwick, the King of Prussia, many German noblemen and the famous English collector, Robert Walpole.