Editing Hendrick Avercamp (section)

== Life ==
Avercamp was born in [[Amsterdam]], where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter [[Pieter Isaacsz]] (1569–1625), and perhaps also with [[David Vinckboons]], who was a follower of [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Pieter Brueghel the Elder]]. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to [[Kampen, Overijssel|Kampen]] in the province of [[Overijssel]]. Avercamp was mute and probably deaf, he was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen). He also had a nephew Barent Avercamp (1621-1679) who was also a painter and who imitated Hendrick's style of painting.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hendrick Avercamp (1585 - 1634) {{!}} National Gallery, London |url=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/hendrick-avercamp |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=www.nationalgallery.org.uk}}</ref> Avercamp lived his entire life through the [[Eighty Years' War|Eighty Years' war]], where the young Dutch Republic resisted in a war against the [[Habsburg Spain|Spanish Habsburgs]]. He died in Kampen and was interred there in the [[Bovenkerk, Kampen|Sint Nicolaaskerk]].