All Jan van Bijlert's oil paintings



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87868 Johannes de Evangelist Johannes de Evangelist 1625-30 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 94.3 x 77.6 cm (37.1 x 30.6 in) cyf
84003 Johannes de Evangelist. Johannes de Evangelist. Date ca.1625-30 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 94.3 x 77.6 cm (37.1 x 30.6 in) cjr
90646 Music society Music society c 1640. Oil on canvas 17th century cjr
52606 Musical Company Musical Company Oil on panel, 97 x 115 cm
27343 Portait of a young man,half-length,wearing a breastplate and brooch,wearing a breastplate and brooch with the head of medusa,and the order of the gold Portait of a young man,half-length,wearing a breastplate and brooch,wearing a breastplate and brooch with the head of medusa,and the order of the gold mk56 oil on panel,in a carved and gilt wood frame

Jan van Bijlert
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1597-1671 Dutch painter. He was the son of the Utrecht glass painter Herman Beerntsz. van Bijlert (c. 1566-before 1615). Jan must have trained first with his father but was later apprenticed to the painter Abraham Bloemaert. After his initial training, he visited France and travelled to Italy, as did other artists from Utrecht. Jan stayed mainly in Rome, where he became a member of the Schildersbent; he returned to Utrecht in 1624. In Rome he and the other Utrecht artists had come under the influence of the work of Caravaggio; after their return home, this group of painters, who became known as the UTRECHT CARAVAGGISTI, adapted the style of Caravaggio to their own local idiom. The Caravaggesque style, evident in van Bijlert's early paintings, such as St Sebastian Tended by Irene (1624; Rohrau, Schloss; see fig.) and The Matchmaker (1626; Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.), is characterized by the use of strong chiaroscuro, the cutting off of the picture plane so that the image is seen close-up and by an attempt to achieve a realistic rather than idealized representation. . Related Artists to : | Jacobus Vrel | Anton von Werner | Pietro Graziani | Victor DeGrailly | Jean-Baptiste Le Prince |