Flemish Baroque Era Painter, ca.1630-1675  Related Paintings of Cornelius Gijsbrechts :. | Adoration of the Child | The Dead Christ | Adoration of the Magi | Constantinople | The Absinth |
Related Artists:
Jan Spanjaert
Dutch , c. 1590-Before 1664 . Active in Delft and Amsterdam 1632-1665
Edward Bower
floruit 1635-1667
Hendrick ter Brugghen
(1588 - Nov 1, 1629) was a Dutch painter, and a leading member of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio ?? the so-called Dutch Caravaggisti. Little is known of the early life of ter Brugghen; he could have been born in The Hague, but his family seems to have moved to the strongly Catholic Utrecht in the early 1590s. Here he started painting at the age of thirteen, studying with Abraham Bloemaert. From Bloemaert, a Mannerist history painter, he learned the basics of the art. Around 1604, however, ter Brugghen travelled to Italy to expand his skills, a rather unusual move for Dutch painters at the time. He was in Rome in 1604, and could therefore have been in direct contact with Caravaggio.