Albert Eckhout
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Albert Eckhout was a Dutch portrait and still life painter. Eckhout, the son of Albert Eckhourt and Marryen Roeleffs, was born in Groningen, but his training as an artist and early career are unknown.
Albert Eckhout
Tapuyan cannibal woman with a human hand in her hand and foot in her basket, standing under a tree that is likely Cassia grandis, 1641.
Albert Eckhout, African Man
Black Woman with Child
Dutch Brazil
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Dutch Brazil, also known as New Holland, was a colony of the Dutch Republic in the northeastern portion of modern-day Brazil, controlled from 1630 to 1654 during Dutch colonization of the Americas. Th
Albert Eckhout
…He was in the entourage of the Dutch governor-general of Brazil, Johan Maurits, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, who took him and fellow painter Frans Post to Dutch Brazil to have them record the country's landscape, inhabitants, flora and fauna. Eckhout is also famous for his still-life paintings of Brazilian fruits and…
Dutch siege of Olinda and Recife
Maurice of Nassau became known as "The Brazilian" after returning to the Netherlands
Title page of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)