• Was a Northern Mannerist artist and sculptor born in the Netherlands. • Born in The Hague to a patrician family. • His international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque. • He excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and in the manipulation of patina and became the most famous European sculptor of his generation. • He also excelled in draughtsmanship.
• Partly as a result of the disturbances of the Thirty Years' War, and also changes in style, Adriaen de Vries had no direct follower. • Next
After Adriaen de Vries, Aegidius Sadeler II, Portrait of Emperor Rudolph II on Horseback, 1586-1629
Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2022.
After Adriaen de Vries, Aegidius Sadeler II, Portrait of Emperor Rudolph II on Horseback, 1586-1629
