Artist

Herman Saftleven

Portrait of Herman Saftleven
Portrait of Herman Saftleven

Dutch Republic

Herman Saftleven is a Dutch Republic Dutch Golden Age painter. 42 works are cataloged here, principally at Statens Museum for Kunst, most of them oil paintings.

Dutch painter Herman Saftleven specialized in river and landscape scenes during the 1600s. His brush captured the everyday life along waterways, like the busy *River view with ferry* or the serene *River landscape with rainbow*. He also painted travelers and harvests, showing how people moved through and worked the land. Tap into *Harvest in the Rhineland* to step into one of his later scenes.

Works by Herman Saftleven

Collections represented

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