Matthias Scheits
Illustration — Landscape with figures Matthias Scheits (1630 in Hamburg – 1700 in Hamburg) was a German Baroque painter. According to Houbraken he was in Hamburg while Johannes Voorhout was there and though he had initially trained in Haarlem under Philips Wouwerman, he later painted farm & village scenes in the manner of David Teniers. Voorhout met him while he was working on historical sketches that were later published under his own name as prints of the old and new testament.
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Matthias Scheits
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- Born
- 1630 · Hamburg.
- Died
- 1700 · Hamburg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · artist · draftsperson · copper engraver · illustrator
- Fields
- visual arts · Baroque painting · painting · drawing
- Teachers
- Philips Wouwerman
- Languages
- German · Latin · English
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Illustration — Landscape with figures Matthias Scheits (1630 in Hamburg – 1700 in Hamburg) was a German Baroque painter. According to Houbraken he was in Hamburg while Johannes Voorhout was there and though he had initially trained in Haarlem under Philips Wouwerman, he later painted farm & village scenes in the manner of David Teniers. Voorhout met him while he was working on historical sketches that were later published under his own name as prints of the old and new testament.
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Born at Hamburg in 1630, died in Hamburg in 1700.
Training under Philips Wouwerman is recorded. The recorded working language is German, Latin and English. The field of work recorded is visual arts, Baroque painting and painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Haarlem, Hamburg and Antwerp. Work by Matthias Scheits is recorded in the collections of Art Museum of Estonia, Finnish National Gallery, Statens Museum for Kunst, Bavarian State Painting Collections and Gemäldegalerie Berlin.
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