Adam Pynacker

Adam Pynacker painted Italianate landscapes filled with warm southern light: sunlit rivers, silvery birch trunks, boats moored by the shore and hills fading into golden haze.

Born in Schiedam, he spent about three years in Italy, and the memory of its light shaped the rest of his work. He settled in Amsterdam, where he also painted large decorative landscapes for entire rooms. He is grouped with Jan Both and Nicolaes Berchem among the Dutch painters who brought the Roman Campagna home. His work is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection and the Metropolitan Museum.

Barge on a River at Sunset and Bridge in an Italian Landscape show his crisp detail and his love of low evening sun.