• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• According to
Houbraken, he learned to paint from his father Pieter van Bronckhorst.
• The young Bronckhorst was sent to work as a pastry baker for a cousin in Haarlem.
• He drew as a hobby.
• He specialized in painting plants, birds, and insects.
• Although he remained a pastry baker, he did very well with his watercolours, which were published in engravings and commemorated with a poem by Johannes Vollenhove.
• His pupils were Hendrik Graauw and Herman Henstenburgh.
• Both Bronckhorst and Herman Henstenburgh worked for the Mennonite art collector and horticulturalist Agnes Block for whom they painted animals, insects and plants from her garden.
Johannes Bronckhorst, A Red-Billed hanging Parrot (Coryllis Exilis) and a Fawn-Breasted Brilliant (Phacolaima Rubinoides) with an Insect and Butterfly
Original, Sotheby`s, New York. Visited in 2020.
Johannes Bronckhorst, A Red-Billed hanging Parrot (Coryllis Exilis) and a Fawn-Breasted Brilliant (Phacolaima Rubinoides) with an Insect and Butterfly
Johannes Bronckhorst, A Red-Billed hanging Parrot (Coryllis Exilis) and a Fawn-Breasted Brilliant (Phacolaima Rubinoides) with an Insect and Butterfly
