Catharina Backer
by Arnold Boonen
Title
Catharina Backer
Artist
Arnold Boonen
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Painting
Description
Catharina Backer, 1713, is a painting by Arnold Boonen (1669–1729), a Dutch portrait painter. He painted genre pictures in the style of Godefried Schalken, representing subjects by candlelight, but met with such encouragement in portrait painting that he devoted himself almost wholly to that branch of art.
His style was well adapted to succeed in it. An excellent oolourist, a faithful designer of his model, and highly skilled, he was soon distinguished as one of the ablest artists of his day. He painted a great number of portraits of the most distinguished people of his time, among whom were Peter the Great, the Elector of Mentz, the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Prince and Princess of Orange, the great Duke of Marlborough, and several others. He painted some large pictures for the halls of the different companies at Amsterdam and Dordrecht.
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