By Helmut Schönrock: Seventeenth-century Dutch society was shaped less by the court and church and more by a developing bourgeoisie. To represent their status, merchants, wealthy farmers, captains, and prosperous citizens bought artworks by Dutch painters on the open market. These paintings depicted their native landscape as they perceived it to be typical. One could say: The Dutch painter painted his surroundings as they supposedly appeared to …
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By Helmut Schönrock: Seventeenth-century Dutch society was shaped less by the court and church and more by a developing bourgeoisie. To represent their status, merchants, wealthy farmers, captains, and prosperous citizens bought artworks by Dutch painters on the open market. These paintings depicted their native landscape as they perceived it to be typical. One could say: The Dutch painter painted his surroundings as they supposedly appeared to …