All the oil paintings of BERCHEM, Nicolaes

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
5144		A Southern Harbour Scene	1657-59 Oil on canvas, 83 x 104 cm Wallace Collection, London
5151		Animal Study dd	Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 44,9 x 63,7 cm Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
5145		Italian Landscape at Sunset	1670-72 Oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich
28401		Italian Landscape with a Bridge	mk60 1656 Oil on panel 17 1/2x24"
5146		Italian Landscape with Bridge ddd	1656 Oil on panel, 44,5 x 61 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
32250		Landscape with Jacob, Rachel, and Leah	1643 Oil on canvas, 166 x 138 cm
5147		Landscape with Two Horses	Oil on wood Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
5148		Merchant Receiving a Moor in the Harbour	Oil on canvas transferred from oak, 94 x 98,5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
5149		Peasants with Cattle by a Ruined Aqueduct	c. 1658 Oil on wood, 47,1 x 38,7 cm National Gallery, London
43184		Peasants with Four Oxen and a Goat at a Ford by a Ruined Aqueduct	mk170 1655-1660 Oil on oak 47.1x38.7cm
5150		Rocky Landscape with Antique Ruins	c. 1657 Oil on canvas, 83,3 x 104,3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich

BERCHEM, Nicolaes
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1620-1683 Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 - 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number allegories and genre pieces. Born in Haarlem, he received instruction from his father Pieter Claesz, and from the painters Jan van Goyen, Jan Wils and Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert. (It is not known why he called himself Berchem or Berighem, and other variants). For some time it was supposed Berchem traveled to Italy with a fellow painter Jan Baptist Weenix, whom he called his cousin. In 1645 he became a member of the Dutch reformed church and married the year after. Being a widower he married the daughter of Jan Wils. Around 1650 he did travel to Westphalia with Jacob van Ruisdael. May be Berchem went to Italy after this trip and before he moved to Amsterdam. Around 1660 he worked for the engraver Jan de Visscher designing an atlas. In 1670 he moved back to Haarlem, but Berchem died in Amsterdam in 1683. His paintings, of which he produced an immense number, (Hofstede de Groot claimed around 850, although many are misattributed), were in great demand, as were his 80 etchings and 500 drawings. His landscapes, painted in the Italian style of idealized rural scenes, with hills, mountains, cliffs and trees in a golden dawn are sought after. Berchem also painted inspired and attractive human and animal figures in works of other artists, like Allaert van Everdingen, Jan Hackaert, Gerrit Dou, Meindert Hobbema and Willem Schellinks. The French Rococo painter Jean-Baptiste Pillement was influenced by his works.