Hercules Seghers
✓ Source-basedrisingDutch painter and engraver (c.1589-c.1638)
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Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age. He has been called "the most inspired, experimental and original landscapist" of his period and an even more innovative printmaker.
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![Mountainous Landscape, c. 1650; oil on panel by Seghers. Bredius Museum, Hague - destroyed by fire in Oct. 2007.[1][3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Hercules_Seghers-_%22Bergachtig_Landschap%22.jpg/500px-Hercules_Seghers-_%22Bergachtig_Landschap%22.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Mountainous Landscape, c. 1650; oil on panel by Seghers. Bredius Museum, Hague - destroyed by fire in Oct. 2007.[1][3]
Landscape with Fir, c. 1620-30; etching on painted paper, in Rijksmuseum![Panoramic Landscape, c. 1625; oil on canvas, mounted on panel Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, only attributed to Seghers since 1951.[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Hercules_Seghers_001.jpg/500px-Hercules_Seghers_001.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Panoramic Landscape, c. 1625; oil on canvas, mounted on panel Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, only attributed to Seghers since 1951.[8]
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About this person
Country
NetherlandsCategory
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1589 to 1638 · aged 49
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