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| Abraham Bloemaert Boy with a Flute 1621 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Boy with a Flute ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas National Trust for Scotland, Brodie Castle |
"As a child, Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) moved with his family from Gorinchem to Utrecht. He was apprenticed to no less than five different masters, among them his father Cornelis Bloemaert the Elder. Having travelled to Paris and Amsterdam, in 1593 Bloemaert returned to Utrecht. There he was to remain for the rest of his life, acquiring a name for his paintings of mythological and religious subjects. Bloemaert – a pious Catholic in the Protestant Northern Netherlands – received numerous commissions from the Catholic Church. His early paintings featured the exaggerated, elongated and muscular figures of Mannerist art. In the 1620s. when his career was at its height, his style began to change. Influenced by his pupils, including Gerrit van Honthorst and Hendrick ter Brugghen, he painted a number of works in the Caravaggist manner."
– biographical notes from the Rijksmuseum
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| Abraham Bloemaert Adoration of the Magi 1624 drawing Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Adoration of the Magi 1624 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Man with a Dog in a Landscape ca. 1630 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Pollard Willows before 1651 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Gateway to a Town ca. 1625-35 drawing and watercolor Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Abraham Bloemaert The Sky (with Fall of Icarus) ca. 1632 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Studies of Women 1620s drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Standing Trumpeter and Studies of Hands ca. 1624-26 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Parable of the Wheat and the Tares 1624 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Neptune and Amphitrite ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Venus and Adonis 1632 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Cornelis de Visscher Portrait of Abraham Bloemaert 1650 drawing on vellum National Galleries of Scotland |