Roos, Johann Heinrich - Italienische Terrassenlandschaft mit Hirten und Herde

Johann Heinrich Roos (29 September 1631,

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– 3 October 1685,

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) was a German

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landscape painter and etcher.

Biography

His family had emigrated to

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due to the

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in 1640.