French Rococo Era Painter, 1685-1766  Related Paintings of Jjean-Marc nattier :. | Catherine I of Russia by Nattier | Portrait of Baronne Rigoley d Ogny as Aurora, nee Elisabeth d Alencey | Portrait of Marie Adelaide of France | Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France | Repro painting of Philippine elisabeth d'Orleans or her sister Louise Anne de Bourbon |
Related Artists:
Johann Kaspar Scherrer
painted Weidelandschaft in den Schweizer Bergen mit Katarakt und Gebirgshorizont in 1739 - 1806
Sir Edward john Poynter,Bart.PRA,RWS
1836-1919
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