All VEEN, Otto van's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
51091 Portrait of Nicolaas Rockox Portrait of Nicolaas Rockox Oil on panel, 26,5 x 35 cm
20277 Surrounded by His Household (mk05) Surrounded by His Household (mk05) 1584 Canvas,69 1/4 x 98 1/2''(176 x 250 cm).Acquired in 1835
9442 The Last Supper r The Last Supper r 1592 Oil on canvas, 350 x 2247 cm O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp
VEEN, Otto van
Flemish painter (b. 1556, Leiden, d. 1629, Bruxelles). Flemish painter and draughtsman of Dutch birth. Although born in Holland, he is regarded as an artist of the Catholic southern Netherlands, where he spent most of his active life. He seems to have been acquainted with most of the Netherlandish scholars of his time, and his works testify to his broad humanistic learning. This and his prominent role in the early manifestations of the Counter-Reformation in Antwerp may have led Rubens to choose him as a teacher. Van Veen's importance as an artist has often been compared to the career of his famous pupil, for whom he was certainly the most important exemplar of the pictor doctus or learned painter. Van Veen obviously represents the older generation's more classicizing and conservative response to the Counter-Reformation. For him, the return to the spiritual values of the past also implied a recovery of the pictorial style of the High Renaissance, with its deliberate borrowings from the paintings of such artists as Raphael and Correggio. . Related Artists to : | Leon Spilliaert | Pieter de Molijn | George Price Boyce,RWS | Jacobus Mancadan | SARACENI, Carlo |