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Melchior d'Hondecoeter  (1636 – 1695)

• Dutch animalier painter.
• He was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam.
• He was the grandson of the painter Gillis d'Hondecoeter and the son of Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter.
• Melchior's cousin Jan Weenix told Arnold Houbraken that in his youth Melchior was extremely religious, praying very loud.
• Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese, fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos.
• His registered pupils were Willem Hendrik Wilhelmus van Royen and Jan Weenix.
• Hondecoeter also painted wall hangings with views of buildings and parks.
• Very few of his pictures are dated, around twenty of them, though more are signed.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: The Menagerie, c. 1690.
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