Frederik Bloemaert ( – 11 June 1690)Frederick Bloemaert
at the

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. was a Dutch printmaker and draftsman. Bloemart was born and died in

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. He was the youngest son of

Abraham Bloemaert Abraham Bloemaert (25 December 1566 – 27 January 1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker who used etching and engraving. He initially worked in the style of the " Haarlem Mannerists", but by the beginning of the 17th-century altered his style ...

and distinguished himself as an engraver. He learned the art from his father, and was chiefly occupied in engraving after his designs. His principal work was a drawing book, containing 173 plates, engraved from the designs of his father. He also executed a few plates entirely with the graver. His prints are sometimes signed A. Bloem. inv. F. B. filius fecit, and sometimes F. B. The following are principally after his father's designs: Odulphus

*Twelve of ''the Archbishops and Bishops of Utrecht'', two of which are by Corn. Bloemart. (one pictured) *''

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''. *''St. Francis in a Hermitage''. *''The Body of Leander on the sea-shore''. *A set of sixteen figures of Men and Women; marked ''F. B. fec.'' *A set of thirty, of Beggars; on the title is inscribed ''Nudus inops mutilus, F. B. fec.'' *''The Five Senses''. *''The Four Seasons''. *Twenty Landscapes; ''F. B. filius fecit et exc''. *''A Landscape, with a Pigeon-house''. *Fourteen of Animals and Birds; entitled ''Verscheyde Besten und Vogelen''. *Four of

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; ''De Hanabijters''.

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Attribution: * 1610s births 1690 deaths Artists from Utrecht (city) Dutch Golden Age printmakers Dutch draughtsmen Bloemaert family {{Netherlands-artist-stub