Circle of Adriaen Van Stalbemt
Circle of Adriaen Van Stalbemt (1580 - 1662 Antwerp)
A hawking Party in a Landscape with an Angler by a River; and
A wooded River Landscape with elegant Company
Oil on Copper – A Pair - Unframed
8.5 x 22.8cm (approx 3⅞ x 9 inches)
Adriaen van Stalbemt was a Flemish painter of landscapes, history subjects, genre and allegorical scenes. He was an excellent landscape painter as well as a good figure painter, and his compositions are filled with subtle details.
His parents fled in 1585 from Antwerp because of the persecution of Protestants by the Spanish Catholics. They settled in Middelburg and in 1609 he returned to Antwerp, where he became Master in the Painter’s Guild of Saint Luke. He worked for nearly a year in London at the Court of King Charles I. For the King he painted the Family of Charles I, with the background landscape of Greenwich completed by Jan van Belkamp (Royal Collection).
Van Stalbemt collaborated with Pieter Brueghel II and with Frans Francken II. The influence of other prominent painters such as Adam Elsheimer, Jan Brueghel the Elder and David Vinckboons is very visible in his works.
Our two little coppers were in the past attributed to David Vinckboons but they are, according to Christies, much closer to Adriaen van Stalbemt. Jan De Maere in his “Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters” describes his style as follows:
‘He preferred bright colours enhanced by vivid yellow and azur blue. His backgrounds are fused with blue tonalities and his foregrounds are usually shady. Additionally, his figures are usually depicted in profile, and his viewpoint is generally low.’
Oil on Copper – A Pair - Unframed 8.5 x 22.8cm (approx 3⅞ x 9 inches)
