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Bonaventura van Overbeek
Bonaventura van Overbeek (1660–1705) was a Dutch Golden Age draughtsman and engraver.
Biography.
Overbeek was born and died in Amsterdam. According to Houbraken, he drew the Roman ruins from life and, while in Rome, he joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Romulus". He published several etchings of his drawings, but also published a book with descriptions of the major sites of Rome in 1708, that he had dedicated to the English princess Anna – he died before publication and the book
sculptures, and his motifes became popular and are found in the works of other contemporary artists such as Jan van Mieris and Willem van Mieris, Ignatius van Logteren, Barend Graat, and Nicolaas Verkolje.
According to Roeland van Eynden and Adriaan van der Willigen, in their "Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst", he was given the title "Waarnemer" by his bent friends in Rome due to his precies observations of the classic statues there. Equipped with the skills to create poetic sculptures, he returned north with Bonaventura van Overbeek