Herman Saftleven
View on the Rhine
View of the Rhine River near Reineck
View of a River with Boat Moorings
River Landscape with Ruins, Boats and Figures
View of the Rhine River near Andernach
Mountainous landscape near Boppard aan de Rijn
A panoramic river valley landscape with figures and village below
An Extensive Rhenish River Landscape
Rhenish River Landscape Capriccio
Landscape with Shepherds Playing Music
Christ Teaching from Saint Peter's Boat
Erbach im Odenwald, Rheingau view with Taunus mountains
Drawings
Flowering prickly pear cactus
Study of a red catchfly. Lychnis hirsuta
Succulent plant
Black water gate in Utrecht
View through a window on Utrecht
Peasant with Child
The Ruins of Utrecht
Pieterskerkhof in Utrecht
Mountainous Landscape with Figures
Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609 - 5 January 1685 (buried)), was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
Born in Rotterdam, Saftleven lived most of his life (1632–1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607–1681) and Abraham Saftleven were both painters. The former was even better known as a painter, specializing in genre scenes, while Herman was known for his landscapes of river scenes as well as of persons traveling through woods. His father, Herman Saftleven I was a painter in Rotterdam, who died by 1627. One of Herman II’s daughters, Sara Saftleven, born in Utrecht after 1633, also became a painter of flowers in watercolors. She married Jacob Adriaensz Broers in 1671.
Herman became the dean of the Guild of St Luke in Utrecht. After a storm had destroyed most of the town in the 1670s, he sold the city a series drawings he had made of Utrecht churches before they were destroyed. In the 1680s, he was commissioned by the amateur botanist and horticulturalist Agnes Block, to draw flowers and plants at her country estate near Utrecht. He died in Utrecht.
References
Web gallery of Art. Grove encyclopedia abstract.
(Dutch) Herman Zachtleven biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
External links
Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Herman Saftleven
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