Anthonie Waterloo

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: Anthonie Waterloo

DatesBiographical dates: 1609 - 1690 Dead: dead 1690 Born: born 1609

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BiographyBiography: Landscape painter and etcher. Active in Amsterdam from 1623 to 1653, when he moved to Leeuwarden, moving again to Maarssen just two years later. During the 1650s he travelled extensively in Germany, as far east as Danzig. He left Maarssen in 1676 or possibly earlier. He sold a house in Amsterdam in 1663, and one in Utrecht in 1668, where he eventually died. Some of the drawings in Stockholm are of fairly recent attribution. Only one drawing in the Tessin purchase in Paris was attributed to Waterloo. Fredrik Sparre attributed three more, but they have since been given to other artists (cf. Josua de Grave). Two more have been singled out from the anonymous drawings, and four added from the Anckarsvärd Collection. This group has been little studied and only three of them have been published, but they share a number of stylistic traits. The chalk is applied lightly, using the paper to produce a grainy structure, and combined with light wash or reinforced by heavier chalk lines and brushwork. Another feature they have in common is that the grey wash is slightly opaque, being mixed with white body colour. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings]

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