Career
Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasants, and other genre scenes. Dujardin spent two extended periods, at the beginning and end of his career, in Italy, and most of his paintings and landscape etchings have an Italian or Italianate setting. Karel Dujardin was a Dutch painter and etcher, born in Amsterdam in 1622.
Typical of his landscape paintings is Farm Animals in the Shade of a Tree (1656.
National Gallery, London). He died in Venice in 1678.
After supposedly training with Nicolaes Berchem, the young Dujardin went to Italy, and joined the Bentvueghels group of painters in Rome, among whom he was known as "Barba di Becco", "goat-beard", or Bokkebaart. Here he encountered his first artistic successes.
He went with her to Amsterdam, where his pictures were valued very highly.
He travelled on to Venice but died there unexpectedly in 1678. According to Reynst, he had said: "why should I be in a hurry to go back? I am where I want to be". Though he seemed to recover, his stomach was too full and he died.
According to the RKD, his pupils were Jacob II, son of Jacob van der Does, Martinus Laeckman, and Erick van den Weerelt.
Karel Dujardin"s paintings.