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Frans Post
Dutch, 1612–1680
Frans Post was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 25 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings. Frans Post was born in Haarlem.
Frans Janszoon Post (17 November 1612 – 17 February 1680) was a painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of the Americas, during and after the period of Dutch Brazil. In 1636 he traveled to Dutch Brazil in northeast of South America at the invitation of the governor Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen.
His works were widely collected in the Netherlands, Europe, and Brazil, with the works showing an idealized vision of Dutch colonial rule.
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