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Herman Naiwincx Schoonhoven 1623 - circa 1670 Hamburg
Description
- Herman Naiwincx
- a southern landscape with a wooden bridge and travellers by a bluff with their horses and dogs;a southern landscape with a hawking party by a river
- a pair, the latter signed lower left: HNaüwjnx.
- both oil on panel
Catalogue Note
Naiwincx is an artist of great charm, and his paintings, which are rare, have a distinctive mood, being saturated with rich evening colour. The distant view of a sea or large lake in both of these pictures, hinting at limitless space, is highly typical for him. Two sets of eight etchings reveal the same interests, and likewise his drawings, which are also highly distinctive.
Born in 1623 in Schoonhoven, Naiwincx's family possessed the largest weaving-mill of Holland. At a young age they moved to Amsterdam. Originally Herman was a merchant and later trained as a painter and etcher in Amsterdam. He later travelled to Germany to work and he probably died there (see A. Bredius, 'Een en ander over Herman Nauwincx', in Oud Holland, vol. LVIII, 1941, pp. 18-22 and A. Blankert and A. Nijstad, 'Herman Nauwincx als schilder en tekenaar', in Tableau, nr. 1/5, 1979, pp. 48-58).
Offered with the photostat certificate by Dr. Walther Bernt, dated 6 May 1957.