- Sebastian Vrancx
Sebastian Vrancx (also written as Sebastiaan or Sebastiaen) (
22 January 1573 -19 May 1647 ) was aFlemish Baroque painter and etcher of theAntwerp school . He was an apprentice in the workshop ofAdam van Noort , who also trained many illustrious painters such as Peter Paul Rubens,Jacob Jordaens andHendrik 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 . [Muller, Jeffrey M., Rubens: The Artist as a Collector, Princeton, 1989, ISBN 0691002983.] As a collaborator he worked at times withJan Brueghel the Elder . [ [http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bruegel/jan19.html "Assault on a Convay", combined work of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Sebastian Vrancx] ,] 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 isPieter 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 , [http://www.brugge.be/internet/en/musea/Groeningemuseum-Arentshuis/Groeningemuseum/index.htm Groeninge Museum] inBruges (both in Belgium) and the Noordbrabants museum in's-Hertogenbosch and theRijksmuseum inAmsterdam (the Netherlands). He is also represented with several drawings or paintings at the Hermitage inSaint Petersburg , the Harvard University Art Museums, theLouvre ,Paris and several other museums.Notes
External links
* [http://www.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/index.aspx?local=nl&p=object&query=identifier=613 Collection in Belgian museums]
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/vrancx_bastiaen.html Collection in several museums]
* [http://eu.art.com/asp/display_artist-asp/_/crid--33700/Sebastian_Vrancx.htm Paintings]
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