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c.1665 - c. 1722. Known for: Figure, landscape, river landscape and cityscape, genre painting.
Mathys Schoevaerdts became a student of the landscape painter Adam Frans Boudewijns in Brussels in 1682. From 1692 he experienced the culmination of his artistic career and was promoted to the... Read full biography
Mathys Schoevaerdts became a student of the landscape painter Adam Frans Boudewijns in Brussels in 1682. From 1692 he experienced the culmination of his artistic career and was promoted to the position of dean of the St. Luke painters' guild in Brussels. His decked out cityscapes and landscapes are... Read full biography
Mathys Schoevaerdts became a student of the landscape painter Adam Frans Boudewijns in Brussels in 1682. From 1692 he experienced the culmination of his artistic career and was promoted to the position of dean of the St. Luke painters' guild in Brussels. His decked out cityscapes and landscapes are still entirely under the influence of his great role model, Jan Brueghel the Elder. "As one of the few Flemish artists who could paint both landscapes and figures, he was asked by Jacques d'Arthois... Read full biography
Mathys Schoevaerdts became a student of the landscape painter Adam Frans Boudewijns in Brussels in 1682. From 1692 he experienced the culmination of his artistic career and was promoted to the position of dean of the St. Luke painters' guild in Brussels. His decked out cityscapes and landscapes are still entirely under the influence of his great role model, Jan Brueghel the Elder. "As one of the few Flemish artists who could paint both landscapes and figures, he was asked by Jacques d'Arthois or his teacher Baudewyns, for example, to paint figures as staffage in their landscape (. )". (cf. report by Dr. Ertz) He preferred to depict simple figures in genre-like scenes that are embedded in a landscape that stretches far into the depths. In... Read full biography
Mathys Schoevaerdts became a student of the landscape painter Adam Frans Boudewijns in Brussels in 1682. From 1692 he experienced the culmination of his artistic career and was promoted to the position of dean of the St. Luke painters' guild in Brussels. His decked out cityscapes and landscapes are still entirely under the influence of his great role model, Jan Brueghel the Elder. "As one of the few Flemish artists who could paint both landscapes and figures, he was asked by Jacques d'Arthois or his teacher Baudewyns, for example, to paint figures as staffage in their landscape (. )". (cf. report by Dr. Ertz) He preferred to depict simple figures in genre-like scenes that are embedded in a landscape that stretches far into the depths. In our painting, Schoevaerdts convincingly conveyed the everyday life of the rural population in an ideal environment that remains true to the Fl... Read full biography
