Winter Landscape with a Frozen River and Figures (1620) Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.)

He was one of the earliest landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter.

His works give a vivid depiction of sport and leisure in the Netherlands in the beginning of the 17th century.

[1] Many of Avercamp's paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes.

Avercamp's work enjoyed great popularity and he sold his drawings, many of which were tinted with water-color, as finished pictures to be pasted into the albums of collectors.

For instance, included in the painting Winter Landscape with Skaters are several prurient details: a couple making love, naked buttocks, and a peeing male.

From November 20, 2009, to February 15, 2010, the Rijksmuseum presented an exhibition of his work entitled The "Little Ice Age".