English Classicist Painter, 1850-1934  Related Paintings of John Collier :. | Tannhauser in the Venusberg | Lady Godiva | The Land Baby | Queen Guinever-s Maying | Der Schmetterling |
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Vigilius Erichsen
1772-1782 Danish Vigilius Erichsen Location
Pjotr Michalovski
1800-1855
SEGHERS, Gerard
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1591-1651 Flemish painter, dealer and collector, active also in Italy and Spain. He grew up in Antwerp, a city that had only recently been liberated from the rebels by the Spanish troops. His father, a keeper of a wine tavern, originally had Calvinist sympathies but returned to the Catholic faith after 1585. Gerard possibly trained, as did afterwards his younger brother Jan Baptist Seghers, who later became a goldsmith, with Gaspar de Crayer (b 1551), the father of the well-known painter of the same name. At the age of 12 Seghers was listed as a pupil in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp; the documents, unfortunately, fail to mention the name of his teacher. Florent Le Comte (1699) called him a pupil of Abraham Janssen