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CLAEISSENS, Antoon

CLAEISSENS, Antoon Mars Vanquishing Ignorance dfg oil painting on canvas
Mars Vanquishing Ignorance dfg
Painting ID::  6061
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CLAEISSENS, Antoon Mars Vanquishing Ignorance dfg oil painting on canvas



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  CLAEISSENS, Antoon
  Flemish painter (b. ca. 1538, Brugge, d. 1613, Brugge). Flemish painter and draughtsman. In 1587 he was working in Rome with the Brussels painter Frans van de Kasteele. That he subsequently lived in Brussels is confirmed by documentary evidence and by his status as court painter to the governors of the southern Netherlands. Stylistically, de Clerck's work (both paintings and drawings) is close to that of the Antwerp late Mannerist Marten de Vos, traditionally thought to have been his teacher, but it is possible that he was apprenticed to Joos van Winghe in Italy. He was later a member of the Brussels painters' guild, where from 1601 to 1611 Jan van Overstraeten was registered as his pupil. It was in 1594 that de Clerck was appointed court painter in Brussels, first to Archduke Ernest. In 1596, after the Archduke's death, his brother Emperor Rudolf II arranged for de Clerck to stay on as court painter in the service of the new Archdukes, Albert and Isabella. In 1609 de Clerck and Wenceslas Cobergher were commissioned to decorate the ceiling of the oratorium in the archducal palace in Brussels
  Mars Vanquishing Ignorance dfg
  1605 Oil on canvas, 197,5 x 279 cm Groeninge Museum, Bruges

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