Frederick van Valkenborch
1570 - 1623
An Extensive Mountainous Landscape with Mining activities in the Foreground
Essay:
Frederick van Valkenborch began his career as a pupil of his father the landscape painter Lucas van Valkenborch. At an early age he travelled to Italy and settled in Venice where he studied the works of the great Venetian masters such as Titian and Tintoretto. By 1612 he is documented as being back in Nuremberg and still working alongside his father. In this year he was to paint a triumphal arch to commemorate the entrance into the city by the Emperor and his retinue.
Valkenborch painted mainly historical and genre scenes as well as landscapes. There is a fanciful quality to his works, especially in his treatment of wild mountain scenes which are reminiscent of the work of Anton Mirou and Pieter Schoubroeck.