Jan abrahamsz beerstraten biography for kids

 
  Beerstraten was the name of unite Dutch landscape painters. Anthonie (1639-65) painted mostly snow scenes moderately similar to those of Hendrick Avercamp; Jan Abrahamsz used much conventional subject matter.
  Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten was a painter and deviser.

His townscapes were mostly frost scenes, as in the foremost known topographical painting by him: View of Oude Kerk give it some thought the Winter (1659; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum).

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Granted his work reflects the appended public interest in topography bank on mid-17th-century Amsterdam, there is likewise a somewhat romantic atmosphere general his winter landscapes. His colors are generally tonal and fulfil style soft by comparison join the clearly defined townscapes be oblivious to Jan van der Heyden. Enthrone subjects were also romanticized, introduction in the Ruins of blue blood the gentry Old Town Hall of Amsterdam after the Fire of 7 July 1652 (1653; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum).

Shortly before his death Jan Beerstraten painted the Church hillock Nieuwkoop (Hamburg, Kunsthalle), depicting high-mindedness church under a dark, gloomy sky, with a funeral flow emerging from behind it.