Johann Melchior Roos
Illustration — Waterfall at Tivoli Johann Melchior Roos (December 27, 1663 – 1731) was a German Baroque painter.
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Johann Melchior Roos
Johann Melchior Roos · Own work photo by Szilas in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes · Public domain
- Born
- 1663 · Heidelberg.
- Died
- 1731 · Brunswick.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · artist
- Education
- Haagsche Teekenacademie
- Known for
- A Goatherd Watching his Animals
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Waterfall at Tivoli Johann Melchior Roos (December 27, 1663 – 1731) was a German Baroque painter.
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Johann Melchior Roos studied at Haagsche Teekenacademie. The recorded working language is German. Works named in the authority record are A Goatherd Watching his Animals. Work by Johann Melchior Roos is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Rijksmuseum, Hessen Kassel Heritage, Bavarian State Painting Collections and National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
According to the RKD He was born in Heidelberg and learned to paint from his father, the landscape painter Johann Heinrich Roos. In 1682-1685 he studied at the drawing academy of the Confrerie Pictura in the Hague, and in 1686 he travelled to Rome where he worked with his brother Philipp Peter Roos (Rosa di Tivoli) in Italy. He is known for Italianate landscapes with animals and portraits. He died in 1731 in Braunschweig.
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1663
Johann Melchior Roos born at Heidelberg.
1731
Johann Melchior Roos died at Brunswick.
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