page_title: Herman van Swanevelt
section_title: Art
hierarchical_section_title: Herman van Swanevelt / Art
context_page_description: Herman van Swanevelt was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Baroque era.
context_section_description: During the beginning of the 1630s his development runs parallel to Claude's, and in some ways even anticipates it. During the thirties Swanevelt refined his idyllic landscape style. Swanevelt was an important link between the first generation of Dutch italianate painters, such as Cornelis van Poelenburch and Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and those of the second generation who imitated his monumental compositions and his treatment of southern sunlight. In the last decade of his life when Swanevelt made a few trips to Woerden, he also painted Dutch scenery, but with the typical southern sunlight.
caption: Huntsman at Rest
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