Caspar Netscher (1639-1684),

• Was a Dutch portrait and genre painter.
• He was born in Heidelberg or Prague.
• His father Johann Netscher was a sculptor from Stuttgart.
• He became a student of Ter Borch in Deventer.
• Netscher knew the painters Frans van Mieris, Sr. and Gerard Dou, Gerrit de Hooch from The Hague.
• He was patronized by William III, and his earnings soon enabled him to gratify his own taste by depicting musical and conversational pieces.
• His pupils besides his three sons were Johannes van den Brande, Otto Brandt, Olivier van Deuren, Jacob van der Does the younger, Van Hardenbroeck, Daniël Haringh, Mouritz van der Linden, J. Spick, Jan Tilius and Aleida Wolfsen.
• The displayed painting is acrop from: A Woman Feeding a Parrot, with a Page, 1966.
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