Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569–1625), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Avercamp was deaf and mute and was known as \"de Stomme van Kampen\" (the mute of Kampen). As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter. Avercamp\'s paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape. Many of Avercamp\'s paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes. Winter Landscape with Skaters is a 1608 oil on oak painting by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.[1] This painting shows ice skaters of all sorts enjoying a day on a frozen river. People dressed up stand among villagers going about their daily chores. A dog chews on a dead carcass in the lower left corner. A boat sails away on a sled in the background as a group of fishermen make efforts to free a frozen sailboat in the foreground. A bird trap is seen to the left among other farm implements and the whole scene is overshadowed by a church to the left. Winter Landscape with Skaters is considered one of Avercamp\'s earliest works, and is painted in a style strongly reminiscent of Pieter Bruegel the Elder\'s Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap. Some aspects of this picture are taken directly from Bruegel\'s works, such as the \"bird trap\" which also appears in other works by Avercamp. . New York Art-Print. Size: 22 x 27 3\\\\4 inches. High printing quality. This piece is printed on cardboard.

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