Frans Post

Post was born and trained in Haarlem. In 1636 he travelled to Brazil in the entourage of Prince Johan Maurits of Nassau, who was Governor of the country (then a Dutch colony). Post belonged to a group of scientists and artists who were meant to record various aspects of Brazilian life, landscape, fauna and flora. He returned to Haarlem in 1644, where he had a successful career painting imaginary Brazilian landscapes. Apparently he gave up painting after 1669 as no dated works of the 1670s are known.