Carel van Falens

A riding party taking refreshments in a river landscape

Carel van Falens[1] (baptized in Antwerp on 24 November 1683 – Paris, 26 May 1733) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, copyist, art restorer, art dealer and copyist. He specialised in scenes of hunters and cavalry encampments in the popular style of the Dutch battle and horse painter Philips Wouwerman.[2] He worked most of his life in France where he was a painter to the court and a member of the Académie royale.[3]

  1. ^ Name variations: Karel van Falens, Carel van Falens, Charles van Falens, Carel van Valens, Carel Vanfalens, Carel van Vales, Carel Vanderfaes, Carel Van Falen, Carel Van Faelens, Carel van der Faes, Carel Van Valens
  2. ^ Carel van Falens at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  3. ^ Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool, Antwerpen, 1883, p. 1209-980 (in Dutch)