Carel Borchaert Voet (1671,

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– 1743,

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), was an 18th-century flower and insect painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

Carel Borchaert Voet - flowers on a stone ledge

According to the RKD he became a member of the

Confrerie Pictura The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague (the Netherlands) by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there. History The guild of St. Luke in the Hague existed a ...

in the years 1692-1699. He travelled to England in the service of Hans Willem Bentinck, count of Portland.Carel Borchaert Voet
in the RKD He contributed to his ''Codex Bentingiana'', a catalog of the flowers and insects in his garden called Bentingiana, that was later used as a source for Leonard Plukenet's ''Phytographia'' in 1692. He moved to Dordrecht in 1702 where he stayed.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Voet, Carel Borchaert 1671 births 1743 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Artists from Zwolle Painters from The Hague