Tobias Verhaecht (1561–1631) was a painter from Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant who primarily painted landscapes. His style was indebted to the mannerist world landscape developed by artists like Joachim Patinir and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. He was the first teacher of Pieter Paul Rubens.
Portrait of Tobias Verhaecht
Alpine Landscape
Landscape with Venus and Adonis
Mountainous River Landscape with Travelers
The world landscape, a translation of the German Weltlandschaft, is a type of composition in Western painting showing an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint that includes mountains and lowlands, water, and buildings. The subject of each painting is usually a Biblical or historical narrative, but the figures comprising this narrative element are dwarfed by their surroundings.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563, 37.1 × 55.6 cm (14.6 × 21.9 in)
Detail from Patinir's St Jerome (National Gallery), between formations in the vicinity of Dinant.
Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, Joachim Patinir, c. 1515–1524, Prado
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Cornelis Massys, c. 1540