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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

Lot Details

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.
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.