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5480367
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Prints / graphics
Title
Caspar Netscher
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9,3 x 7,8
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Portrait bust of Caspar Netscher (1639-1684). Netscher was apprenticed to the painter Hendrick Coster at a young age in Arnhem. He completed his training in Gerard ter Borch's studio in Deventer. In 1658 or 1659 Netscher moved to The Hague. In 1659 he left for Italy, but got no further than Bordeaux, where he went to live. There he met his later wife Margaretha Godijn. In 1662 he returned with his family to The Hague, where he joined the Hague painters' guild Pictura on 25 October. Lithograph, signed in print Franck. Made in Germany around 1840. At the bottom 4 lines in German about the person portrayed.

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