Gerard Melder
18th-century miniature and watercolor painter from the Northern Netherlands
About Gerard Melder
Lived 1693 – 1754 (aged 60). Gerard Melder was a Dutch painter.
Guerard Melder in Jean-Baptiste Descamps' "La Vie des Peintres..." Gerard Melder (1693 – 1754) was an 18th-century miniature and watercolor painter from the Dutch Republic.
Biography He was born in Amsterdam. According to Johan van Gool who devoted six pages to his biography in his Nieuwe Schouburg, Melder's father Cornelis Melder died when he was six, and he was named after his grandfather, the Utrecht fortifications master Gerard Melder, who published an instructional booklet in 1658 on the Utrecht fortifications. This younger Gerard Melder made copies on ivory after Rosalba Carriera whose miniatures he collected.
He died in Utrecht.
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18th-century miniature and watercolor painter from the Northern Netherlands (1693–1754)
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Gerard Melder was born on 17 July 1693 in Amsterdam.
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Gerard Melder died on 16 April 1754 in Utrecht.
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Gerard Melder was a painter.
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Gerard Melder was Dutch.
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