Hendrick Avercamp
1585–1634

Selected artwork
Enjoying the Ice near a Town
c. 1620
Rijksmuseum
Other names (64)
A. Averkamp, Avercamp, avercamp hendrik v., Averckamp, Averkamp, Aver Kamp, Averscamp, bij genaamd de stomme van Kampen Averkamp, bygenaamd de Stomme van Campen A. Averkamp, bygenaamd de stomme van Kempen H. Averkamp, den Stomme van Kampen, de Stom, De Stom Avercamp, de Stomme, de Stomme van Campen, de Stomme van Campen H. Averkamp, de Stomme van Kampen, de Stom tot Campen, de Stom van Campen, de Stom van Kampen, De Stumma, De Stumme, dit le Muet de Campen Averkamp, genaamd de stomme van Kampe Averkamp, Havercamp, H. Avercamp, Havercamp de Stomme, H. Averkamp, hendric avercamp, hendrick averkamp, Hendrick Barentsz. Avercamp, Hendrick Berentsz. Avercamp, Hendrick Berentsz. de Stomme van Kampen Avercamp, Hendrick Berentsz. de Stom van Kampen Avercamp, Hendrick de Stom tot Campen, Hendrick Stomme van Campen, Hendrick Stom tot Campen, Hendrick Stom van Campen, hendrick van avercamp, Hendrick van Campen, Hendrick Vander Stom, Hendrik Avercamp, hendrik averkamp, Hendrik van Avercamp, Hendrik van Averkamp, Henricus de Stom, Kampen Le Muet, Kampin, nick-named Stommé van Campen Henry Avercamp, Stom, Stomme, stommen van Campen, Stomme van Campe, Stomme van Campen, Stomme van Kampen, Stomme Van Kampen Avercamp, Stom tot Campen, Stom van Campen, Van Campen, Vander Stom, van Kampen, V. Campen, V. Kampen, von Campen
Biography
Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) – May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter during the Dutch Golden Age of painting. He was one of the earliest landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter. His paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape. His works give a vivid depiction of sport and leisure in the Netherlands in the beginning of the 17th century. Many of Avercamp's paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes.
Avercamp's work enjoyed great popularity and he sold his drawings, many of which were tinted with water-color, as finished pictures to be pasted into the albums of collectors. The Royal Collection has an outstanding collection of his works.
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Influenced by
- Pieter Bruegel the Eldereditorial inference
Evidence
Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Hendrick Avercamp. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- National Gallery of Art3 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
- Rijksmuseum1 recorded work
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art1 recorded work
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- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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