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ROELANDT JACOBSZ SAVERY (Dutch 1576-1639)

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ROELANDT JACOBSZ SAVERY (Dutch 1576-1639)
<B>ROELANDT JACOBSZ SAVERY (Dutch 1576-1639)</B></I><BR>Landscape with Lions<BR>Oil on panel<BR>17.5in. x 24.75in.<BR>Signed bottom center: Roelandt/ Savery<BR>Provenance: private collection; Leger and Son, London, 1955; private collection, Middlesex, England<BR>Exhibited: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Roelandt Savery 1576-1639, April- June, 1954, no. 87.<BR>Roelandt Savery painted two similar versions of this subject, and both are signed. One is in the collection of Graf von Schonborn, Pommersfelden; the other in the Kulturgeschichtes Museum, Osnabruck. Savery was a versatile artist and superb draftsman who painted landscapes, genre scenes, still lifes and flower pieces. Savery was born in Kortijk and as a boy moved to Haarlem, in the southern Netherlands. By 1591 he was studying with his brother Jacob and the artist Hans Bol in Amsterdam.<BR>Savery traveled widely and worked as a court painter for Henry IV of France. Beginning around 1603, he worked for ten years as court painter for Rudolph II of Prague. He traveled through Bohemia making sketches and drawings he used as the basis for his paintings. His work also incorporated exotic animals that he studied closely in Rudolf's menagerie, and he must have seen the now extinct dodo bird as is often appears in some of his paintings. Savery later worked in the court of Emperor Matthias of Vienna before settling in Utrecht in 1619.<BR>While his work recalls the paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Savery's style is more archaic. His landscapes are known for their abundance of flora and fauna, painted in meticulous detail. His landscape paintings with jagged rock formations and waterfalls influenced Dutch landscape painters such as Allart van Everdingen, Herman Saflteven the Younger and Jacob van Ruisdael. Savery's paintings are housed in important public collections, including the Louvre, Paris; National Gallery of Art, London; Norton Simon Museum, California; National Gallery of Prague, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 24.5% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid.