Hercules Seghers

Style: Baroque;

Place: Haarlem

Born: 1590

Death: 1638

Biography:

Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers (c. 1589 – c. 1638) was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age. He was "the most inspired, experimental and original landscapist" of his period and an even more innovative printmaker. Hercules was born in Haarlem, as the son of a Mennonite cloth merchant, originally from Flanders, who moved to ...