Albert Eckhout (c.1610–1665) was a Dutch portrait and still life painter. Eckhout, the son of Albert Eckhourt and Marryen Roeleffs, was born in Groningen, but his training as an artist and early career are unknown. A majority of the works attributed to him are unsigned. He was among the first European artists to paint scenes from the New World. He was in the entourage of the Dutch governor-general of Brazil, Johan Maurits, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, who took him and fellow painter Frans Post to Dutch Brazil to have them record the country's landscape, inhabitants, flora and fauna.[1] Eckhout is also famous for his still-life paintings of Brazilian fruits and vegetables. His paintings were intended for decoration in a domestic context.[2]
^Francis A. Dutra, "Albert Eckhout" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, vol. 2, p. 430. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1996.
^Buvelot, Quentin (2003). "Albert Eckhout. Recife, Brasília and São Paulo". The Burlington Magazine. 145 (1198): 59–62. JSTOR 3100597.
AlbertEckhout (c.1610–1665) was a Dutch portrait and still life painter. Eckhout, the son of Albert Eckhourt and Marryen Roeleffs, was born in Groningen...
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Black Woman with Child is a circa 1650 full-length portrait painting by AlbertEckhout. It is in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark, in Copenhagen...
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colonies (Bloom 1998, Coe 1996). A painting by Dutch Golden Age artist AlbertEckhout shows a wild cacao tree in mid-seventeenth century Dutch Brazil. The...
payments of salt. Few Dutch cultural and ethnic influences remain, but AlbertEckhout's paintings of amerindians and slaves, as well as his still lifes are...
Oil on canvas. Private collection. 18th c. AlbertEckhout, Tupi (Brazil) dancing, 17th c. AlbertEckhout African Woman in Brazil, 17th c. Aleijadinho(Brazil):...
have any figures. While Post was in charge of documenting the land, AlbertEckhout, another one of Nassau’s artists, was in charge of documenting the native...
by the father and brought up in France. Frans Post (1612—1680) and AlbertEckhout (c.1610–1665) were two early Dutch painters to depict slavery. Post...
tropical diseases; Frans Post, famous painter, then in his early twenties; AlbertEckhout, also a painter; cartographer Cornelius Golijath; the astronomer Georg...
and sciences. His new reality was portrayed mainly by Frans Post and AlbertEckhout. Regarding the exploitation of the colony, Nassau was tolerant of the...
intellectuals and technicians. In painting, the figures of Frans Post and AlbertEckhout stand out, leaving works of high quality and within a calm and organized...
Institute was inaugurated in September 2002, with an exhibition devoted to AlbertEckhout, displaying for the first time outside Europe all of his paintings done...
admiral Adriaan Geerts Wildervanck (1605–1661), businessman and coloniser AlbertEckhout (c.1610–1665), portrait and still life painter Roche Braziliano (c.1630–c...
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