Hercules Seghers: A Life in Landscape and Print Born: Haarlem, Netherlands (c. 1590) Died: c. 1638 Early Life and Training Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers was born in Haarlem, the son of a Mennonite cloth merchant originally from Flanders. In 1596, his family moved to Amsterdam. He was apprenticed to Gillis van Coninxloo, a leading Flemish landscapist, but this apprenticeship was cut short by Coninxloo's death in 1606. Seg…