Wildlife Art History
In the Dutch Golden Age such specialists tended to produce smaller genre paintings concentrating on their specialism.
Animal painters came lower down in the hierarchy of genres, but the best painters could make a very good living; many royal and aristocratic patrons were more interested in their subject matter than that of the more prestigious genres.
Mainly in England, there were still more specialised painters from the 18th century who produced portraits of racehorses and prize specimens of livestock, whereas in France animal subjects continued to be decorative capriccios often set around garden statuary.
In 2014 Jonathan Jones of The Guardian proposed The Goldfinch (1654) by Carel Fabritius (1622–1654) as the finest animal portrait; this was not the artist's normal subject matter at all.
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Capetown, South Africa
Adriaan Lotter
Landscapes, Portraits, Wildlife, Fan Art
Arcrylic, Oil, Canvas
