Denis van Alsloot or Denijs van Alsloot[1][2][3] (c. 1570 – c. 1626) was a Flemish landscape and genre painter, draughtsman, and tapestry designer. He was employed as a court painter and worked for the local elite in Brussels. He is considered to be a member of the Sonian Forest school of landscape painters, which included landscape painters such as Jacques d'Arthois and Cornelis Huysmans. These painters working in Brussels had a preference for depicting scenes from the Sonian Forest near Brussels.[4] Van Alsloot was also a specialist in depicting civil processions, local festivals and ceremonies.[5]
- ^ Alternative name spellings: Denijs van Alsloot, Denys van Alsloot, Denijs Van Alsloot
- ^ Denis van Alsloot at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- ^ The 17th century biographer Cornelis de Bie erroneously called him 'Daniel van Alsloot' in: Cornelis De Bie, Het gulden Cabinet vande edel vry schilder const, inhoudende den lof vande vermarste schilders, architecte, beldthowers ende plaetsnyders van dese eeuw, Jan Meyssens, 1661 (in Dutch)
- ^ Hans Devisscher. "Alsloot, Denijs van." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 25 August 2017
- ^ Jonathan Israel, Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585–1713, A&C Black, 1 July 1997, p. 20