Jakob II Savery

Jakob Savery spent his days wandering the Dutch countryside collecting odd plants and sketching whatever smelled strange. He once stayed so long in a marsh watching a heron that he forgot to eat. His crowd-pleaser is the busy Chermeză painted for a village feast, where every inch buzzes with parrots, cats, and a priest waving incense—see it in real life at the Rijksmuseum if you dare to stand close to the crowd.