Coenraet Roepel (1678, The Hague – 1748, The Hague), was an 18th-century fruit and flower still life painter from the Dutch Republic.
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Biography
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According to Jan van Gool he was an avid gardener and his love of flowers made him become a pupil of Constantijn Netscher so that he could paint the flowers and other plants in his garden.[1] He travelled to Düsseldorf in 1716 and received a gold chain and medal from Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine for his work.[1] He had high hopes of painting more for the elector, but his patron died the same year, so Coenraet returned to the Netherlands.[1] On his return, he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1718 and was very successful in The Hague, receiving as much as 1,000 guilders for a work, but was later eclipsed by the flower painter Jan van Huysum.[1]
According to the RKD he was trained in the Confrerie in the years 1698-1699 and first became a member there in 1711.[2] His pupil was Pieter Terwesten.[2]
The Lazaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid owns a couple of Still lifes, one with fruits and the other a Vase with Flowers,[3] from Roepel.
References
edit- ^ a b c d (in Dutch) Koenraet Roepel, Part 1, page 426 in Nieuwe Schouburg (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the Institute of Dutch History
- ^ a b Coenraet Roepel in the RKD
- ^ "Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España - Museos". ceres.mcu.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-27.