Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A Winter Scene in the round

A Winter Scene in the round

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Original – A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle (1608–09) by Hendrick Avercamp; Avercamp—a deaf mute known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen)—was the first of the Dutch painters to specialise in snow scenes having been influenced in his subject by the Little Ice Age, particularly the cold winter of 1607–08. The National Gallery acquired it as a square painting in 1891; on cleaning in 1983, it was established that the corners were later additions by another painter. These additions were removed to leave Avercamp's original.

Reason

Excellent scan of a beautiful painting

Articles in which this image appears

A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Hendrick Avercamp

• Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 06:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:54, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Winter! ^{Ahem: one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, to be all correct; who specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter; Sca made me study the subject thoroughly....} Hafspajen (talk) 08:45, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Strikingly Bruegelesque, though a bit softer in tone. Cozy.

PS: I find it impossible to make Swedes do anything they don't secretly want to do.

Sca (talk) 13:55, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

• Support - Very nice painting. CorinneSD (talk) 21:44, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support -Jobas (talk) 01:17, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support I like this one very much. --PetarM (talk) 05:38, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Hendrick Averkamp A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:53, 13 April 2015 (UTC)