All SEGHERS, Gerard's oil paintings
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Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z |
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| 9106 |
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The Patient Job |
Oil on canvas, 192 x 242,5 cm
National Gallery, Prague |
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| SEGHERS, Gerard
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| Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1591-1651
Flemish painter, dealer and collector, active also in Italy and Spain. He grew up in Antwerp, a city that had only recently been liberated from the rebels by the Spanish troops. His father, a keeper of a wine tavern, originally had Calvinist sympathies but returned to the Catholic faith after 1585. Gerard possibly trained, as did afterwards his younger brother Jan Baptist Seghers, who later became a goldsmith, with Gaspar de Crayer (b 1551), the father of the well-known painter of the same name. At the age of 12 Seghers was listed as a pupil in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp; the documents, unfortunately, fail to mention the name of his teacher. Florent Le Comte (1699) called him a pupil of Abraham Janssen
. Related Artists to : | Dirck Hals | Joseph Rusling Meeker | Perez, Antonio Gisbert | Frans Snyders | Alfons Mucha | |
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