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1603 Antwerp, Belgium - 1676 Antwerp, Belgium. Known for: Baroque genre and cabinet picture painting, historical events.
Simon de Vos was a Flemish Baroque painter of genre and cabinet pictures. From 1615 until 1620, he studied with Cornelis de Vos (1603-76), to whom he is not related. In 1620 he joined Antwerp's Guild... Read full biography
Simon de Vos was a Flemish Baroque painter of genre and cabinet pictures. From 1615 until 1620, he studied with Cornelis de Vos (1603-76), to whom he is not related. In 1620 he joined Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke, and then he probably traveled to Rome where he came under the influence of the... Read full biography
Simon de Vos was a Flemish Baroque painter of genre and cabinet pictures. From 1615 until 1620, he studied with Cornelis de Vos (1603-76), to whom he is not related. In 1620 he joined Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke, and then he probably traveled to Rome where he came under the influence of the "low-life" genre paintings of the Bentvueghels and the bambocciate. A Caravaggesque influence, by way of the German painter Johann Liss—active in Italy during the 1620s—is discernible in De Vos's paintings... Read full biography
Simon de Vos was a Flemish Baroque painter of genre and cabinet pictures. From 1615 until 1620, he studied with Cornelis de Vos (1603-76), to whom he is not related. In 1620 he joined Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke, and then he probably traveled to Rome where he came under the influence of the "low-life" genre paintings of the Bentvueghels and the bambocciate. A Caravaggesque influence, by way of the German painter Johann Liss—active in Italy during the 1620s—is discernible in De Vos's paintings from this time on. In contrast to the earlier "low-life" paintings, works from the late 1620s until around 1640, which were made after returning to Antwerp, are mostly small "merry company" and courtly genre scenes reminiscent of contemporary Dutch... Read full biography
Simon de Vos was a Flemish Baroque painter of genre and cabinet pictures. From 1615 until 1620, he studied with Cornelis de Vos (1603-76), to whom he is not related. In 1620 he joined Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke, and then he probably traveled to Rome where he came under the influence of the "low-life" genre paintings of the Bentvueghels and the bambocciate. A Caravaggesque influence, by way of the German painter Johann Liss—active in Italy during the 1620s—is discernible in De Vos's paintings from this time on. In contrast to the earlier "low-life" paintings, works from the late 1620s until around 1640, which were made after returning to Antwerp, are mostly small "merry company" and courtly genre scenes reminiscent of contemporary Dutch painters Dirck Hals and Pieter Codde. After 1640, De Vos turned away from genre scenes altogether and painted mostly small cabinet painting... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeAN ALLEGORY OF THE FIVE SENSES: A MERRY COMPANY IN AN INTERIOR
Simon De Vos Auction: 12/08/2005Lot: 104Subscribe or get free alerts
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeAllegory of the five senses: interior with festive gathering. 1640
Simon De Vos Auction: 03/27/2015Lot: 3054Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeThe interior of a kitchen with a fortune teller reading the palm of a finely dressed gentleman, with other figures and children; A merry company making music beneath a fountain (2)
Simon De Vos Auction: 07/10/2015Lot: 112Subscribe or get free alerts
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