Friday, September 24, 2021

Artus Wolfaerts (Antwerp Baroque)

Artus Wolfaerts
The Holy Trinity
before 1641
oil on canvas
Groeningemuseum, Bruges

Artus Wolfaerts
The Four Elements
before 1641
oil on canvas
private collection

Artus Wolfaerts
St John the Evangelist
before 1641
oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Artus Wolfaerts
St Luke
before 1641
oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Artus Wolfaerts
Banquet of Achelous
before 1641
oil on canvas
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Artus Wolfaerts
Bath Scene
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Artus Wolfaerts
Allegory of Winter
before 1641
oil on canvas
private collection

Artus Wolfaerts
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1615
oil on canvas
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Artus Wolfaerts
St James the Greater
before 1641
oil on canvas
private collection

Artus Wolfaerts
St Thomas
before 1641
oil on canvas
private collection

Artus Wolfaerts
The Last Supper
ca. 1630-40
oil on panel
private collection

Artus Wolfaerts
St Jerome
before 1641
oil on canvas
private collection

Artus Wolfaerts
St Jerome in the Desert
before 1641
oil on canvas
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Artus Wolfaerts
Christ at the Pool of Bethesda
before 1641
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Artus Wolfaerts
The Cook
ca. 1633
oil on canvas
Museum Leuven, Belgium

"Artus Wolfaerts (1581-1641) received his training in Dordrecht and in 1616 he worked for a short time in [Otto] Van Veen's studio in Antwerp.  A large part of his work consists of scenes from the life of Christ, and of sets of pictures of apostles, evangelists and Fathers of the Church; there are several versions of varying quality of many of these pictures, indicating that Wolfaerts must have had a successful studio working mainly for the art trade and the open market.  The classicist characterization of his figures is very similar to Van Veen's style, but he also adapted this earlier style to motifs and schemes of composition derived from Rubens."

– Hans Vlieghe, Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700, Yale University Press, 1998

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Artus Wolfaerts
ca. 1630
engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art