Adriaen Rombouts (c. 1640 – in or after 1670) was a genre painter active in Brussels in the middle of the 17th century. He is known for his indoor scenes with peasants engaging in play, eating and drinking.[1]
Life
editVery little is known about the life of Rombouts. He was likely born sometime around 1640. He became in 1653–1654 a pupil of Joos van Craesbeeck in Brussels.[2] Van Craesbeeck was a prominent genre painter who had trained with Adriaen Brouwer and had moved from Antwerp to Brussels around 1650.[3]
The last known dated work of Rombouts is dated 1670. It is not known when or where the artist died.[1]
Work
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Adriaen Rombouts painted scenes with peasants engaging in play, eating and drinking at home or in taverns. He also painted a portrait of the fool of a Brussels chamber of rhetoric.[4]
Some paintings attributed to him are now attributed to other artists. This includes A doctor performing a back operation, watched by country folk (Wellcome Library), which is now attributed to the anonymous Antwerp artist referred to as the Monogrammist H.C.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Adriaen Rombouts at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- ^ Adriaen Rombouts, Bauern bei der Mahlzeit at Lempertz (in German)
- ^ Hildegard Kayser, Niederländische und flämische Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, Museums- und Kunstverein Osnabrück, Kommissionsverlag H.Th. Wenner, 1983, p. 32 (in German)
- ^ Johan Verberckmoes, Laughter, Jestbooks and Society in the Spanish Netherlands, Springer, 1999, p. 22
- ^ attributed to Monogrammist H.C. (Zuidelijke Nederlanden), A doctor performing a back operation, watched by country folk, ca. 1660 London, The Wellcome Trust, inv./cat.nr. 500931i at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
External links
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Media related to Adriaen Rombouts at Wikimedia Commons
