Johann Melchior Roos
A brown bear in a landscape
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December 16, 02:37 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
Johann Melchior Roos
Heidelburg 1663 - 1731 Brunswick(?)
A brown bear in a landscape
signed and dated lower left: Roos.fecit / 1719
oil on canvas
unframed: 46.5 x 56 cm.; 18⅜ x 22 in.;
framed: 62.2 x 72.4 cm.; 24½ x 28½ in.
Private collection, Switzerland;
With Rafael Valls Ltd., until 2009;
With Oliver Cyzer Fine Art, London;
Private collection, UK.
With Rafael Valls Ltd., until 2009;
With Oliver Cyzer Fine Art, London;
Private collection, UK.
German painter Johann Melchior Roos trained with his father, who painted landscapes in the Italianate style of Nicolaes Berchem. Roos travelled to Italy himself but returned to Germany, settling in Nuremberg, where he enjoyed a successful career painting portraits, history paintings, animal paintings and landscapes.