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Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (; 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter’s paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos
Boston (url)
- Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter (1604–1653), 2 paintings : "Fowl on a Riverbank", Private collection (url)
- Gillis d'Hondecoeter (1575–1658), 4 paintings : "Baptism of the Moorish Chamberlain", Rockox House, Antwerp (url)
- Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636–1695), 10 paintings : "Birds and a Spaniel in a Garden", Royal Collection, Windsor (url)
- Abraham Hondius (1631–1691), 2 paintings : "Christ among the Doctors", Metropolitan