Aert Schouman (Dutch, 1710-1792) A Flying Squirrel

Aert Schouman (Dutch, 1710-1792)A Flying SquirrelGrey ink and watercolor with touches of gouache, over black chalk, within brown ink framinglines Inv.nr. N 393. Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: A. Schouman 1769, and inscribed in black chalk,verso: het vligent Eekhorentje levens groot. A.S.Bears inscription in black chalk, verso: PolatorichePaper size: 10 x 7 1/2 inExhibited: Dordrecht 1994-5, addenda, no. 10   Aert Schouman was a prolific artist who specialized in flower painting and engraving on glass but was foremost in the art of natural history painting. After training with F. Greenwood and Adriaen van den Burg, he became a master painter at The Hague in 1748, and three years later regent of the art academy.  By 1762 he had been appointed principal of the academy and included among his pupils the great Dutch flower painter Jan van Os.  Schouman was fortunate to receive royal patronage and completed many works for Prince Willem V at the summer palace of Het Loo, at Apeldoo