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Jacob Jordaens (1593 - 1678) - Belgium (Antwerp)
Baroque, Baroque
Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. Unlike those contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study Italian pai...... |
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David The Younger Teniers (1610 - 1690) - Belgium (Antwerp)
David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. He was an innovator in a wide range of genres such as history, genre, landscape, portrait...... |
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Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597 - 1665) - Netherlands (Assendelft)
Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (9 June 1597 - buried 31 May 1665) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, known for his distinctive paintings of whitewashed church interiors. Saenredam was born in Assendelft, the son of the Northern Mannerist printmaker and draughtsman Jan Pietersz Saenredam whose sensuous naked goddesses are in great contrast with the wor...... |
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Carlo Cignani (1628 - 1719) - Italy (Bologna)
Carlo Cignani (15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well as those of Simone Cantarini. This gentle manner marked a break with the more energetic style of earlier Bo...... |
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Judith Leyster (1609 - 1660) - Netherlands (Haarlem)
Baroque, Baroque
Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster) (c. July 28, 1609 – February 10, 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. She painted genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her entire oeuvre was attributed to Frans Hals or to her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer, until 1893 when Hofstede de Groot first attributed seven paintings to her, six of which are signed with...... |
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Domenico Guidi (1625 - 1701) - Italy (Carrara)
Domenico Guidi (1625 – 28 March 1701) was a prominent Italian Baroque sculptor. Born in Carrara, Guidi followed his uncle, Giuliano Finelli, a prominent sculptor noted for his feud with Bernini, to Naples. When he fled Naples in 1647 during Masaniello's revolt, in Rome he joined the studio of Bernini's main competitor Alessandro Algardi with whom h...... |
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Adriaen Van Ostade (1610 - 1685) - Netherlands (Haarlem)
Baroque, Baroque
Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 December 1610 – buried 2 May 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works. According to Houbraken, he and his brother were pupils of Frans Hals and like him, spent most of their lives in Haarlem. He thought they were "Lubekkers" by birth, though this has since found to be false. He wa...... |
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Pierre Puget (1620 - 1694) - France (Marseille)
Baroque, Baroque
Pierre Puget (16 October 1620 – 2 December 1694) was a French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. Pierre Paul Puget was born in Marseille. At the age of fourteen he carved the ornaments of the galleys built in the shipyards of his native city, and at sixteen the decoration and construction of a ship were entrusted to him. Soon after he went ...... |
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Sébastien Bourdon (1616 - 1671) - France (Montpellier)
Sébastien Bourdon (2 February 1616 – 8 May 1671) was a French painter and engraver. His chef d'œuvre is The Crucifixion of St. Peter made for the cathedral of Notre Dame. Bourdon was born in Montpellier, France, the son of a Protestant painter on glass. He was apprenticed to a painter in Paris. In spite of his poverty he managed to get to Rome in 1...... |
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Leonaert Bramer (1596 - 1674) - Netherlands (Delft)
Leonaert Bramer, also Leendert or Leonard (24 December 1596 – 10 February 1674 (buried)) was a Dutch painter known primarily for genre, religious, and history paintings. Very prolific as a painter and draftsman, he is noted especially for nocturnal scenes which show a penchant for exotic details of costume and setting. He also painted frescos—a rar...... |
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Thomas De Keyser (1596 - 1667) - Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Thomas de Keyser (c. 1596–1667) was a Dutch painter and architect. De Keyser was born and died in Amsterdam. He excelled as a portrait painter, and was the most in-demand portrait painter in the Netherlands until the 1630s, when Rembrandt eclipsed him in popularity. Rembrandt was influenced by his work, and many of de Keyser's paintings were later ...... |
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Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610 - 1662) - Italy (Viterbo)
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Viterbo, 1610 – Viterbo, 1662) was a major Italian painter of the Baroque period, celebrated for his use of bright, vivid colors and also for his clarity of detail. Many of his works are on display in the Louvre. Romanelli was trained in Rome in the studio of Pietro da Cortona, the leading painter of his day. Born in V...... |
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Willem Van Aelst (1626 - 1683) - Netherlands (Delft)
Willem van Aelst (16 May 1627 – in or after 1683) was a Dutch Golden Age artist who specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game. Van Aelst was born in Delft to a family of prominent city magistrates. He learned to paint from his uncle, the still-life painter Evert van Aelst. On 9 November 1643 he enrolled as a master of the Guild of Sai...... |
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Caspar Netscher (1639 - 1684) - Germany (Heidelberg)
Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher (1639 – January 15, 1684) was a Dutch portrait and genre painter. He was a master in depicting oriental rugs, silk and brocade and introduced an international style to the Northern Netherlands. According to Arnold Houbraken's 17th century biographical study of Dutch painters he was born in Heidelberg or Prague. His fathe...... |
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Gaspard Dughet (1613 - 1675) - Italy (Rome)
Gaspard Dughet (15 June 1615 – 27 May 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome. Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook and his Italian wife. He has always generally been considered as a French painter, although in fact he never visited France. In around 1635 he became a pupil of Nicolas Poussin, who ...... |
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Joseph Parrocel (1646 - 1704) - France (Brignoles)
Joseph Parrocel (3 October 1646 – 1 March 1704) was a French Baroque painter, best known for his paintings and drawings of battle scenes. He was born in Brignoles, into an artistic family that produced fourteen painters over six generations. His grandfather Georges Parrocel (1540- ca. 1614) (no surviving works) and his father Barthélemy Parrocel (1...... |
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Bernardo Cavallino (1616 - 1656) - Italy (Napoli)
Bernardo Cavallino (1616–1656) was an Italian painter and draughtsman. He is regarded as one of the most original painters active in Naples during the first half of the 17th century. Born in Naples, he is thought to have died during the plague epidemic in 1656. While his paintings are some of the more stunningly expressive works emerging from the N...... |
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Giuseppe Recco (1634 - 1695) - Italy (Naples)
Giuseppe Recco (1634 – 29 May 1695) was an Italian still life painter. Born in Naples, he likely apprenticed with his family, including his father Giacomo Recco and uncle Giovan Battista Recco. His children Nicolo and Elena also became painters. A large part of his output was painted in Spain, where his assemblies of victuals, both vegetable and an...... |
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Evaristo Baschenis (1617 - 1677) - Italy (Bergamo)
Evaristo Baschenis (December 7, 1617 – March 16, 1677) was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly around his native city of Bergamo. He was born to a family of artists. He is best known for still lifes, most commonly of musical instruments. This could explain his friendship with a family with notable violin makers from Cremon...... |
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Giovanni Antonio Fumiani (1645 - 1710) - Italy (Venice)
Giovanni Antonio Fumiani (1645–1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Venice in 1645, he trained in Bologna under Domenico degli Ambrogi, a specialist in quadratura, but by 1668 he was back in Venice, where he painted a Virgin and Saints in San Benedetto. He was influenced by Ludovico Carracci and Alessandro Tiarini, and soon a...... |
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Gabriel Grupello (1644 - 1730) - Germany (Grammont)
Gabriël Grupello (also Gabriël de Grupello or Gabriël Reppeli 22 May 1644 – 20 June 1730) was a Flemish Baroque sculptor who produced religious and mythological sculptures, portraits and public sculptures. He was a virtuoso sculptor who enjoyed the patronage of several European rulers. Grupello was born as the son of Bernardo Rupelli, an Italian ca...... |
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Claudio Coello (1642 - 1693) - Spain (Madrid)
Baroque, Baroque
Claudio Coello (2 March 1642 – 20 April 1693) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Coello is considered the last great Spanish painter of the 17th century. The son of Faustino Coello, a famous Portuguese sculptor, he was a court painter for Charles II. He worked on many churches and public buildings in Madrid, with his most famous work being in the sacri...... |
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Jan Van Kessel (1641 - 1680) - Belgium (Antwerp)
Jan van Kessel (1641, Amsterdam – 1680, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age draftsman and landscape painter who made many cityscapes of Amsterdam. His work is often confused with the works of contemporary painters with the same name. According to Houbraken he was born in Amsterdam in 1648 and made clever farm scenes that he first drew from life befor...... |
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Nicolas Régnier (1591 - 1667) - France (Maubeuge)
Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667), alternatively Niccolò Renieri, Niccolo Renieri, Niccolò Renieri, Nicolaas Regnier, Nicolaas Renier, Nicolas Renier, Nicolas Renieri in Italian, was a Flemish painter and art collector, active in Italy during the Baroque period. Born in Maubeuge, he initially apprenticed in Antwerp with Abraham Janssens, a painter contem...... |
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Jacques Sarazin (1592 - 1660) - France (Noyon)
Jacques Sarazin or Sarrazin (1588/90 – 3 December 1660) was a French sculptor, who is less known for his paintings. His preparatory drawings in chalk have become more prominent in recent decades. Sarrazin was born in Noyon, France, and went to Paris with his brother, where he trained in the atelier of Nicolas Guillain. He went to Rome in 1610 and w...... |
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Francisco Rizi (1608 - 1685) - Spain (Madrid)
Francisco Rizi (1608–1685) was a Spanish painter born at Madrid. He was the son of Antonio Rizi, a native of Bologna, who had accompanied Federico Zuccari into Spain. Rizi was first trained by Vincencio Carducho. He became painter to Philip IV in 1656, and held the office under Charles II, who added to it the deputy-keepership of the royal keys. A ...... |
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Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1609 - 1662) - Italy (Milan)
Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (Milan, 1608 or 1609 – Milan, 1661 or 1662) was an Italian painter of religious subjects and portraits who was active mainly in Lombardy. He became the leading painter in Lombardy in the mid-17th century, producing works on canvas as well as frescoes. Because his style was perceived as close to that of Guido Reni he was nic...... |
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Sebastiano Bombelli (1635 - 1719) - Italy (Udine)
Sebastiano Bombelli (1635 – 7 May 1719) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Venice, during the Baroque period. Bombelli was born in Udine, where he was apprenticed to his father, Valentino Bombelli, and his godfather, Girolamo Lugaro. He is claimed by some to have studied with Guercino. He is best known for his full-length portraits of the Ven...... |
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Floris Claesz Van Dijck (1575 - 1651) - Netherlands (Delft)
Floris van Dyck, also called Floris van Dijck or Floris Claesz. van Dyck (c.1575 – before 26 April 1651) was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter. Van Dyck lived in Haarlem for most of his life, but he was born in Delft. He was a cousin of Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, whose father Cornelis first had a brewery in Delft before moving to the brewery "...... |
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Melchior De Hondecoeter (1636 - 1695) -
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈɦɔndəˌkutər] c. 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter’s paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goos...... |
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Adriaen Hanneman (1603 - 1671) - Netherlands (Den Haag)
Adriaen Hanneman (c. 1603 - buried 11 July 1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter best-known today for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony van Dyck. He was born into a wealthy Catholic patrician family in the Hague, and studied drawing with Hague portrait artist Jan Antonisz....... |
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Jacob Willemsz De Wet (1610 - 1675) - Netherlands (Haarlem)
Jacob Willemszoon de Wet or Jacob Willemsz. de Wet the Elder (c. 1610 – between 1675 and 1691 ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose works were largely influenced by Rembrandt. De Wet was born and died in Haarlem. Little is known of his early life. Houbraken mentions him in passing as an art dealer of Haarlem in his biographical sketch of Philips ...... |
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Adam Pynacker (1622 - 1673) - Netherlands (Schiedam)
Adam Christiaensz Pynacker or Pijnacker (15 February 1622, Schiedam - buried 28 March 1673, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of landscapes. Pynacker was the son of a wine merchant, who was a member of the vroedschap, or city regency. He travelled to Italy and was gone for three years. In 1658 he converted to Catholicism in order t...... |
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Domenico Piola (1627 - 1703) - Italy (Genova)
Domenico Piola (1627 – 8 April 1703) was a Genoese painter of the Baroque period. He was the leading artist in Genoa in the second half of the 17th century, working on ceiling frescoes for many Genoese churches and palaces and canvas paintings for private collectors. His family studio was highly prolific. He was a frequent collaborator with other a...... |
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Viviano Codazzi (1604 - 1670) - Italy (Bergamo)
Viviano Codazzi (c. 1604 – 5 November 1670) was an Italian architectural painter who was active during the Baroque period. He is known for his architectural paintings, capricci, compositions with ruins, and some vedute. He worked in Naples and Rome. He is known in older sources as Viviano Codagora or il Codagora. Viviano Codazzi was born in Valsass...... |
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Carlo Ceresa (1609 - 1679) - Italy (San Giovanni Bianco)
Carlo Ceresa (January 20, 1609 – January 29, 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly around Bergamo. Born in 1609 at San Giovanni Bianco, a town in the Brembana Valley in the province of Bergamo, Ceresa was a pupil and then assistant of the Milanese painter Daniele Crespi, whose style and vocabulary lived on in his work aft...... |
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Andrea Vaccaro (1604 - 1670) - Italy (Naples)
Andrea Vaccaro (baptised on 8 May 1604 – 18 January 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Vaccaro was in his time one of the most successful painters in Naples, a city then under Spanish rule. Very successful and valued in his lifetime, Vaccaro and his workshop produced many religious works for local patrons as well as for export to S...... |
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Bernardino Mei (1612 - 1676) - Italy (Siena)
The Italian painter and engraver Bernardino Mei (1612/15 – 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family. Briefly a pupil of the Sienese draughtsman and cartographer Giuliano Periccioli, where he learned the art of engraving, Bernardino passed to the studio of the painter Rutilio M...... |
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Herman Saftleven (1609 - 1685) - Netherlands (Rotterdam)
Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609 - 5 January 1685 (buried)), was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Born in Rotterdam, Saftleven lived most of his life (1632–1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607–1681) and Abraham Saftleven were both painters. The former was even better known as a painter, specializing in genre scenes, whil...... |
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Jacob Van Oost (1637 - 1713) - Belgium (Bruges)
Jacob van Oost the Younger (1639, in Bruges – 1713, in Bruges), was a Flemish Baroque painter. According to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, he was a pupil of his father Jacob sr. and brother to the painter Willem. He is known for portraits and genre works. More...... |
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Justus Van Egmont (1601 - 1674) -
Justus van Egmont or Joost van Egmont (Leiden, 1602 – Antwerp, 8 January 1674) was a painter and a tapestry designer. After training in Antwerp and working in Rubens' workshop he left for France where he was a court painter. He later returned to Flanders where he worked in Antwerp and Brussels. He is mainly known for his portrait paintings, althoug...... |
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Gérard Douffet (1594 - 1660) - Belgium (Liège)
Gerard Douffet (1564–1660), also known as Doufeet or Duffeit, was a Flemish painter. He was born at Liège in 1594, and studied for some time at Antwerp in the school of Rubens, and afterwards in Italy. He composed and designed with good taste, and his historical pictures are much esteemed. 'Pope Nicholas V. at the Tomb of St. Francis of Assisi ' (p...... |
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Giovanni Andrea Carlone (1603 - 1684) - Italy (Genoa)
Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603–1684) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. Carlone was born and died in Genoa. He came from a family of artists: his father Taddeo, uncle, and cousins were sculptors, and his older brother Giovanni Bernardo Carlone was a painter, trained in Rome and married to the daughter of Bernardo...... |
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Alessandro Marchesini (1644 - 1738) - Italy
Alessandro Marchesini (30 April 1664 – 27 January 1738) was an Italian painter and art merchant of the late-Baroque and Rococo, active in Northern Italy and Venice. He first trained in Verona with Biagio Falcieri and then with Antonio Calza. He then moved to Bologna, to work in the studio of Carlo Cignani. He is described as gaining fame for his al...... |
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Felice Ficherelli (1605 - 1660) - Italy (Tuscany)
Felice Ficherelli (30 August 1605 – 5 March 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in San Gimignano and active mainly in Tuscany. Among Ficherelli's early patrons was Conte Bardi, who persuaded Ficherelli to move to Florence and to study with the painter Jacopo da Empoli. Empoli's influence is evident in the sumptuous fabrics seen...... |
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Benedetto Gennari (1633 - 1715) - Italy (Cento)
Benedetto Gennari II (October 19, 1633 – December 9, 1715) was an Italian painter active during the Baroque period. Belonging to a dynasty of painters, Gennari was a student of Guercino, the grandson of Benedetto Gennari, and older brother of Cesare Gennari. His father was Ercole Gennari and mother Lucia Barbieri. He trained at the workshop of the ...... |
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Robert Nanteuil (1623 - 1678) - France (Reims)
Robert Nanteuil (1623 or 1630–1678) was a French portrait artist : engraver, draughtsman and pastellist to the court of Louis XIV He was born in Reims in 1623, or, as other authorities state, in 1630, the son of a merchant of Reims. He studied philosophy in his native Reims but was already an engraver by the time he defended his thesis in 1645. He ...... |
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Gerard Soest (1600 - 1681) - Germany (Soest)
Gerard Soest (circa 1600 – 11 February 1681), also known as Gerald Soest, was a portrait painter who was active in England during the late 17th century. He is most famous for his portraits of William Shakespeare and Samuel Butler, but painted many members of the English gentry. Soest was traditionally thought to have come from Soest, Germany in Wes...... |
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Hieronymus Janssens (1624 - 1693) - Belgium (Antwerp)
Hieronymus Janssens or Jeroom Janssens (nicknamed Den danser) (1624, Antwerp - 1693, Antwerp) was a Flemish genre painter known for his compositions depicting elegant companies engaging in dance, music or play, which were of influence on the development of the genre of the conversation piece. He also painted architectural scenes of real or imaginar...... |
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Gillis I Peeters (1612 - 1653) - Belgium (Antwerp)
Gillis Peeters (1612 – 1653), was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver who contributed to the development of marine art and landscape painting in Flanders. He was born in Antwerp. He was the older brother of the marine painters Catharina, Jan I and Bonaventura Peeters. He is recorded in 1631 as the pupil of the Dutch flower painter Anthony C...... |
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Matthijs Naiveu (1647 - 1726) - Netherlands (Leiden)
Matthys or Matthijs Naiveu (16 April 1647, Leiden – 4 June 1726, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he was trained in drawing by Abraham Toorenvliet (1620–1692), a glass painter and drawing instructor (and father of Jacob Toorenvliet), and he learned the art of painting from Gerrit Dou. At the time Houbraken was writ...... |
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Cornelis Kick (1634 - 1681) - Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Cornelis Kick (bapt. 12 March 1634, in Amsterdam – 18 June 1681, in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Kick was trained by his father, then painter Simon Kick, who painted prestigious schuttersstukken. Cornelis Kick is recorded as a painter from 1650 and specialized in flower still lifes, in then manner of his teacher Jan Davidsz de Heem. ...... |
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Pedro Roldan (1624 - 1699) -
Pedro Roldán (1624–1699) was a Baroque sculptor from Seville, Andalusia, Spain. His daughter Luisa Roldán, known as La Roldana, was also a major figure of Spanish Baroque sculpture. Pedro Roldán was born in Seville in 1624, where he was baptized in the Church of the Sanctuary (Spanish: Iglesia del Sagrario) 14 January 1624, according to his certifi...... |
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Juan Antonio Frias Y Escalante (1633 - 1669) - Spain (Córdoba)
Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante (1633 in Cordoba–1669 in Madrid) was a Spanish Baroque Golden Age painter. He was born in Córdoba, studied under Francisco Ricci in Madrid, and developed a career in the Spanish Court despite his early death. He was an admirer of Venetian paintings by Tintoretto and Veronese. His last paintings are in the rococo st...... |
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Jan Van Huchtenburgh (1647 - 1733) -
J(oh)an and Jacob van Huchtenburg (Hughtenburg or Hugtenburg(h)) were two Dutch Golden Age painters in the second half of the seventeenth century. Both brothers were natives of Haarlem, moved to Paris, but died in Amsterdam. The main source about their lives is from Arnold Houbraken. Some of the information from the 19th century is contradictive. J...... |
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Pieter Claesz Soutman (1580 - 1657) -
Pieter Claesz Soutman (1593–1601 – 16 August 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker from Haarlem. Soutman was born and died in Haarlem, where he was a contemporary of Frans Hals, Hendrick Gerritsz Pot, and Pieter Claesz, and seems to have been influenced by all three, considering the various attributions of his paintings through the ce...... |
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Abraham Teniers (1629 - 1670) - Belgium (Antwerp)
Abraham Teniers (1 March 1629 – 26 September 1670) was a Flemish painter and engraver who specialized in genre paintings of villages, inns and monkey scenes. He was a member of artist family Teniers which came to prominence in the 17th century. He was also active as a publisher. Abraham Teniers was born in Antwerp where he was baptized on 1 March 1...... |
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Jean Baptiste De Champaigne (1631 - 1681) - Belgium (Brussels)
Jean Baptiste de Champaigne (10 December 1631, in Brussels – 27 October 1681, in Paris), was a Flemish Baroque painter and teacher. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), he was the nephew of Philippe de Champaigne who moved to Paris to become his pupil in 1643. In 1658 he undertook a trip to Italy to copy the works of Raphae...... |
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Cornelis Bisschop (1630 - 1674) - Netherlands (Dordrecht)
Cornelis Bisschop (12 February 1630 – 21 January 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. In ca. 1650 he was a student of Ferdinand Bol in Amsterdam. In 1653 he was back in Dordrecht, where he got married. According to Houbraken he was the first to paint carved trompe l'oeil wooden panels in such an ingenious way that they became quite popular. He pa...... |
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Hendrick Mommers (1623 - 1693) - Netherlands (Haarlem)
Hendrick Mommers (ca.1623, Haarlem – December 21, 1693, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. According to Houbraken he was a Haarlem painter of vegetable market scenes, who was the first teacher of the young painter Dirk Maas, who later took lessons from the more famous landscape painter Nicolaes Berchem. Mommers died at the age of...... |
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Cornelis De Visscher (1629 - 1658) - Netherlands (Haarlem)
Cornelis Visscher (1629, Haarlem – 1658, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and the brother of Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. According to Houbraken he was an able etcher who made famous prints (in his lifetime), and who had an unusual talent for drawing after a live model with charcoal that was unparalleled. Houbraken mentioned that ...... |
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Wang Jian (1598 - 1677) - China (Taicang)
Wang Jian (simplified Chinese: 王鉴 traditional Chinese: 王鑒 pinyin: Wáng Jiàn Wade–Giles: Wang Jian) ca. 1598-1677 was a Chinese landscape painter during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and Qing dynasty (1644–1912). Wang was born in Taicang in the Jiangsu province. His style name was 'Xuanzhao' (玄照) and his pseudonyms were 'Xiangbi' (湘碧) and 'Ranxiang a...... |
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Thomas Collier (1620 - 1691) - United Kingdom (Glossop)
Thomas Collier RI (12 November 1840 – 14 May 1891) was an English landscape painter. Collier was born in Glossop in Derbyshire, the son of Martha Siddall and Thomas Collier, who was a prosperous grocer and tea dealer. He received tuition at the Manchester School of Art and, inspired by David Cox's example, lived at Betws-y-Coed in northern Wales be...... |
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Jan De Bisschop (1628 - 1671) - Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Jan de Bisschop, also known as Johannes Episcopius (1628–1671), was a lawyer, who became a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. According to the RKD he learned to draw from Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and he influenced in his turn Jacob van der Ulft. Both Ulft and Bisschop were born into good families and were examples of painters who practised art ...... |
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Francisco Antolínez Y Sarabia (1645 - 1700) -
Francisco Antolínez de Sarabia (1645–1700) was a historical and landscape painter who studied in the school of Murillo, whose style and manner of colouring he followed. He was born at Seville, and was a nephew of Joseph Antolinez. He went to his uncle at Madrid in 1672 but notwithstanding his having already distinguished himself as a painter, he le...... |
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Mei Qing (1623 - 1697) -
Mei Qing (Chinese: 梅清 pinyin: Méi Qīng Wade–Giles: Mei Ch'ing ca. 1623–1697) was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet active during the Qing Dynasty. Mei was born in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. His style name was 'Yuangong' (渊公 or 远公) and his pseudonym was 'Mount Qu' (Qushan 瞿山), 'Winter Hut' (Xue Lu - 雪庐), and 'Lao Qu Fan Fu' (老瞿凡父). ...... |
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