Adriaen de Vries (c.1545–1626)

• 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.
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