All Sebastian Vrancx's oil paintings
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28710 Assault on a Convoy Assault on a Convoy mk61 Sebastian Vrancx and Jan Brueghel the Elder Oil on panel 46x86cm
88431 January January first half of 17th century Medium Oil on wood cyf
96699 January January first half of 17th century Medium oil on panel cyf
89596 The Battle of Stadtlohn The Battle of Stadtlohn oil on panel 63.5 x 95.3 cm cyf
Sebastian Vrancx
Flemish Baroque Era Painter , b. 1573, Antwerpen, d. 1647, Antwerpen Antwerpen,was a Flemish Baroque painter and etcher of the Antwerp school. He was an apprentice in the workshop of Adam van Noort, who also trained many illustrious painters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Hendrik van Balen. He also visited the workshop of the Antwerp painter Paul Bril in Rome around 1600. He was esteemed as one of the main painters of battle scenes, and works by Vrancx were in the collection of Peter Paul Rubens. As a collaborator he worked at times with Jan Brueghel the Elder. and together with Rubens, Frans Francken the Younger, van Balen, Frans Snyders and Joos de Momper the Younger on the Allegory of the Senses, two works commissioned on the occasion of the archduke Albert of Austria's visit to Antwerp. His best-known student is Pieter Snayers. Most of his pictures represent biblical scenes or scenes of war, such as the sack of towns, cavalry combats, genre paintings and allegorical subjects. Though occasionally vigorous in drawing, his paintings are dull and heavy in tone. He was at the same time a writer of poetry, comedies and tragicomedies for the chamber of rhetoric De Violieren. He was served as dean of the Antwerp painters' Guild of St. Luke, and was a district head and captain of the militia. His works can be found in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, . Related Artists to : | KINSOEN, Francois Joseph | FERNANDES, Vasco | Johann Heinrich Schonfeldt | Vassily Maximov | Henri Martin Prints |