Caspar Netscher (1636 oder/or 1639 - 1684)

Netscher’s father was a sculptor in Heidelberg, his mother the daughter of the local mayor. After her husband’s death, the mother fled to the Netherlands from the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War. In Arnhem, physician Arnold Tulleken became Caspar’s legal guardian. After training with portrait and genre painter Hendrick Coster and with Gerard ter Borch in Deventer, he earned his living in The Hague by copying ter Borch’s paintings. In 1659, on his way to Italy he stopped in Bordeaux and in 1662 he returned to The Hague, where he joined the "Confrérie Pictura" painters’ guild. His portraits in the style of the Hague court were very well received und commanded high prices.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 186