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Roelant Savery · 1620
Roelant Savery: 1576–1639
Other names (147)
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Biography
Roelant Savery (or Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij, or de Savery, or many variants; 1576 – buried 25 February 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter.
Savery was born in Kortrijk. Like so many other artists, he belonged to an Anabaptist family that fled north from the Spanish-occupied Southern Netherlands when Roelant was about 4 years old and settled in Haarlem around 1585. He was taught painting by his older brother Jacob Savery (c. 1565 – 1603) and Hans Bol.
After his schooling, Savery traveled to Prague around 1604, where he became court painter of the Emperors Rudolf II (1552–1612) and Mathias (1557–1619), who had made their court a center of mannerist art. Between 1606 and 1608 he traveled to Tyrol to study plants. Gillis d'Hondecoeter became his pupil.
Before 1616 Savery moved back to Amsterdam, and lived in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat. In 1618 he settled in Utrecht, where he joined the artist's guild a year later. His nephew Hans would become his most important assistant.
In 1621 Savery bought a large house on the Boterstraat in Utrecht.
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Influenced by
- Jacob Saveryeditorial inference
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- Hans Boleditorial inference
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Later influence
- Allaert van Everdingeneditorial inference
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- Esaias van de Veldeeditorial inference
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The biography identifies Roelant Savery as an artistic influence on Esaias van de Velde. The biography attributes the influence information to RKD; that underlying record has not been independently checked. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Roelant Savery. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)5 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art4 recorded works
- Accademia Carrara2 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art2 recorded works
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera1 recorded work
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie1 recorded work
- musée de Flandre — Cassel1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Dole1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Strasbourg1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
- Rijksmuseum1 recorded work
- The Cleveland Museum of Art1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- 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
- Rijksmuseum: independently verified selected paintings
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
