Nicolaes Piemont - Mountain Scenery with a Castle - KMS674 - Statens Museum for Kunst

Nicolaes Piemont (1644–1709) was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

landscape painter who travelled to Rome in the 1670s.

Biography

Nicolaas Piemont was born in

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. According to Houbraken, Piemont was a member of the

Bentvueghels The Bentvueghels (Dutch for "Birds of a Feather") were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent ("painters' clique"). Activities The members, which included ...

with the nickname "Opgang" who signed

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's ''bentbrief'' in Rome in 1674.Nicolaes Piemont Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the

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According to the RKD he was nicknamed "Opgang" and was known for Italianate landscapes.Nicolaes Piemont
in the

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This painter made some paintings in the dollhouse of

Petronella Oortman Petronella Oortman (; 1656–1716) was a Dutch woman whose elaborate dollhouse is part of the permanent collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Petronella Oortman should not be confused with her close namesake Petronella Oortmans-de la Cour ...

(in the collection of the Rijksmuseum today), together with the painters

Willem Frederiksz van Royen Willem Frederiksz van Royen ( 1645 – 1723) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to the RKD, he was likely born in Haarlem and became a pupil of Arnold van Ravesteyn either there or in The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den ...

and

Johannes Voorhout Johannes Voorhout (11 November 1647 – 25 August 1717) was a Dutch painter of history paintings, portraits and genre scenes.Salon of Petronella Oortman's dollhouse
on the website of the Rijksmuseum Piemont died in

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References

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on

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