Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609 - 1685)

• Was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period.

• Saftleven was born in Rotterdam.

• Saftleven lived most of his life (1632–1685) in Utrecht.

• His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven and Abraham Saftleven were both painters.

• Herman was known for his landscapes of river scenes as well as of persons traveling through woods.

• His father, Herman Saftleven I was a painter in Rotterdam.

• One of Herman II’s daughters, Sara Saftleven, born in Utrecht after 1633, also became a painter of flowers in watercolors.

• She married Jacob Adriaensz Broers in 1671. 

• Herman became the dean of the Guild of St Luke in Utrecht.

• After a storm had destroyed most of the town in the 1670s, he sold the city a series drawings he had made of Utrecht churches before they were destroyed.

• In the 1680s, he was commissioned by the amateur botanist and horticulturalist Agnes Block, to draw flowers and plants at her country estate near Utrecht.

• He died in Utrecht. 

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