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Pastoral scene, 1700s
Norbert van Bloemen (1670, Antwerp – 1746, Amsterdam), was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Biography
Norbert van Bloemen, called Cephalus, the youngest of the three brothers (after Peter van Bloemen and Jan Frans van Bloemen), was born at Antwerp in 1670. He studied and painted portraits and conversation-pieces in Rome, and afterwards returned to his native country and settled at Amsterdam, where he died in 1746. According to Houbraken who called him Nolbertus van Bloemen in his poem about the Bentvueghels, he was a gezelschap (conversation, or genre) painter from Antwerp who was nicknamed Cefalus by the Bent.[1]
According to the RKD he was a pupil of his older brother Pieter and later became the teacher of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel.[2]
References
- ^ (Dutch) Norbert van Bloemen Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Norbert van Bloemen in the RKD
This article incorporates text from the article "BLOEMEN, Norbert van" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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