Frans Post
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 344 years ago |
Date of birth | November 17,1612 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Haarlem |
Netherlands | |
Date of died | February 17,1680 |
Died | Haarlem |
Netherlands | |
Periods | Dutch Golden Age |
Baroque | |
Known for | Painting |
Siblings | Pieter Post |
Job | Painter |
Visual Artist | |
Works | A Brazilian Landscape |
View of Olinda, Brazil | |
Brazilian landscape | |
Landscape in Brazil | |
Nationality | Dutch |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 631737 |
Frans Post Life story
Frans Janszoon Post was a painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of the Americas, during and after the period of Dutch Brazil. In 1636 he traveled to Dutch Brazil in northeast of South America at the invitation of the governor Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen.