Carel Borchaert Voet
18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands
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| Intro | 18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands | |
| A.K.A. | Karel Borchaert Voet | |
| A.K.A. | Karel Borchaert Voet | |
| Places | Netherlands | |
| is | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | Zwolle | |
| Death | Dordrecht |
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Carel Borchaert Voet (1671, Zwolle – 1743, Dordrecht), was an 18th-century flower and insect painter from the Northern Netherlands.
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Flowers on a stone ledge
According to the RKD he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in the years 1692-1699. He travelled to England in the service of Hans Willem Bentinck, count of Portland. He contributed to his Codex Bentingiana, a catalog of the flowers and insects in his garden called Bentingiana, that was later used as a source for Leonard Plukenet's Phytographia in 1692. He moved to Dordrecht in 1702 where he stayed.