Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer
Adriaen Brouwer, a c. 1631 portrait by Anthony van Dyck
Bornc. 1605/1606
Oudenaarde, Belgium
DiedJanuary 1638
Antwerp, Belgium
NationalityFlemish
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Adriaen Brouwer[1] (c. 1605 – January 1638) was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.[2][3] Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other "lower class" individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings.[4] Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which investigate varieties of expression.[5] In his final year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer's work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters.[2][4] Although Brouwer produced only a small body of work, Dutch masters Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt collected it.[6]

  1. ^ Alternative spellings of name: Adriaan Brouwer, Adriaen Brauwer, Adriaen de Brauwer
  2. ^ a b Adriaen Brouwer at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  3. ^ Konrad Renger. "Brouwer, Adriaen." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. Konrad Renger, Craesbeeck [Craesbeke], Joos van, Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 3 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference bar was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  6. ^ Slive, Seymour. Dutch Painting, 1600-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, revised 1995, pp. 133-34