Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1412-1459  Related Paintings of Giovanni di Francesco :. | breakfast after the bath | Unknow work 125 | Gilles | Four Spanish Maidens | Woman with a Lute near Window |
Related Artists:
Adalbert Waagen
painted Bucht von Palermo mit Blick auf Monte Pellegrino in 1896
Franz Kruger
1797-1857 German Franz Kruger Gallery
SEGHERS, Gerard
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1591-1651 Flemish painter, dealer and collector, active also in Italy and Spain. He grew up in Antwerp, a city that had only recently been liberated from the rebels by the Spanish troops. His father, a keeper of a wine tavern, originally had Calvinist sympathies but returned to the Catholic faith after 1585. Gerard possibly trained, as did afterwards his younger brother Jan Baptist Seghers, who later became a goldsmith, with Gaspar de Crayer (b 1551), the father of the well-known painter of the same name. At the age of 12 Seghers was listed as a pupil in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp; the documents, unfortunately, fail to mention the name of his teacher. Florent Le Comte (1699) called him a pupil of Abraham Janssen