The Birdcatcher, attributed to Jacob Adrien Backer 1609-1651

Portrait of a bird catcher, attributed to Jacob Adrien Backer 1609-1651

Oil on oak panel

60 cm x 51 cm without frame

80 cm x 71 cm with a gilded wooden frame from XVIIth century
With a soft gaze, his head tilted and proud to show us this pretty nest that he holds in his hands. This young boy elegantly wears a headdress decorated with a feather, his brown shirt lit up with a white collar is covered with a bright red coat.
Jacob Adrien Backer is a Dutch painter born in 1609 who settled in Amsterdam around 1620. It was in Leeuwarden that he trained like Govaert Flinck and Lambert Jacobsz, his influences are numerous, Rubens, Abraham Bloemaert among others.

His first commissions were portraits, kept at the Mauritshuis, and mythological scenes.

His works can be admired in England and Europe.