Monday, March 16, 2026

Cornelis de Vos
(1584 - 1651)
 

Cornelis de Vos was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and art dealer. He was one of the leading portrait painters in Antwerp and is best known for his sensitive portraits, in particular of children and families. He was also successful in other genres including history, religious and genre painting. He was a regular collaborator with Rubens. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_de_Vos


Portrait of a Family
1631
Oilon canvas
165 x 235 cm 
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/portrait-of-a-family-2

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Frans Hals
(1582 - 1666)

Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their homes with works of art. Hals was highly sought after by wealthy burgher commissioners of individual, married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also painted tronies for the general market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hals


Stephanus Geraerdts, Alderman in Haarlem
1650 - 1652
Oil on canvas
114.5 × 86.5 cm 
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/stephanus-geraerdts-alderman-in-haarlem

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Michaelina Wautier 
(1604 - 1689)

Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers, was a painter from the Southern Netherlands. Only since the start of the 21st century has her work been recognized as that of the outstanding female artist of Flemish Baroque painting, her works having been previously attributed to male artists, especially her brother Charles.
Wautier was noted for the variety of subjects and genres that she worked in. This was unusual for female artists of the time who were more often restricted to smaller paintings, generally portraits or still-lifes.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelina_Wautier

Two Girls as Saint Agnes and Saint Dorothy
c. 1650
Oil on canvas
89.7 x 122 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/two-girls-as-saint-agnes-and-saint-dorothy

Friday, March 13, 2026

Jacob Jordaens

(1593 - 1678)

Jacques (Jacob) Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits. After the death of Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he became the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his time. Unlike those illustrious contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study the Antique and Italian painting and, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he resided in Antwerp his entire life. He also remained largely indifferent to Rubens and van Dyck's intellectual and courtly aspirations. He expressed this attitude in his art by avoiding idealistic treatment of his subject in contrast to these contemporaries.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Jordaens

As the Old Sang, So Pipe the Young
1638
oil on canvas
118.4 x 188.5 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/as-the-old-sang-so-pipe-the-young

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Anthony van Dyck
(1599 - 1641)
 

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_van_Dyck

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
1640
Oil on canvas
115.5 cm x 207,5 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-lamentation-over-the-dead-christ-2

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Peter Paul Rubens
(1577 - 1640 )
 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens


The Adoration of the Magi
1624-1625
Oil on panel
447 x 336 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-adoration-of-the-magi-6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Frans Floris
(1519 – 1570)
 

Frans Floris, Frans Floris the Elder or Frans Floris de Vriendt  was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, print artist and tapestry designer. He is mainly known for his history paintings, allegorical scenes and portraits. He played an important role in the movement in Northern Renaissance painting referred to as Romanism. The Romanists had typically travelled to Italy to study the works of leading Italian High Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and their followers. Their art assimilated these Italian influences into the Northern painting tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Floris


The Fall of the Rebel Angels
1554
Oil on panel
303 x 220 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-fall-of-the-rebel-angels

Cornelis de Vos (1584 - 1651)   Cornelis de Vos was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and art dealer. He was one of the leading portrait painte...