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Roelant Savery (1576-1639)

• Was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He was taught painting by his older brother Jacob Savery and Hans Bol.
• After his schooling, Savery traveled to Prague around 1604.
• In Prague he became court painter of the Emperors Rudolf II (1552–1612) and Mathias.
• Between 1606 and 1608 he traveled to Tyrol to study plants.
• Gillis d'Hondecoeter became his pupil.
• Before 1616 Savery moved back to Amsterdam, and lived in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat.
• In 1618 he settled in Utrecht, where he joined the artist's guild a year later.
• Savery was friends with still life painters like Balthasar van der Ast and Ambrosius Bosschaert.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Roelant Savery, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1624.
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