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Dutch painter (1636–1695)

Not to be confused with Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter or Gillis d'Hondecoeter.

Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈmɛlxijɔrdəˈɦɔndəˌkutər]; c.

Nicknamed the 'Raphael of birds', Melchior d'Hondecoeter is one of the best-known and revered animal painters of the seventeenth century.

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In his early career, D'Hondecoeter mainly painted scenes with fish and other marine animals, later he would switch to birds and become one of.

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Melchior d'Hondecoeter () - Peacock and Pea Hen with a Crane and Chickens, Museum Quality Oil Painting Reproduction (D).

1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutchanimalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar.

Biography

Being the grandson of the painter Gillis d'Hondecoeter and the son of Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter, whose sister Josina married Jan Baptist Weenix, he was brought up in an artistic milieu.^[1] Melchior's