Discover print artist, painter, draftsperson Leonaert Bramer

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: Bramer, Leonard
Bramer, Leonart
Braber, Leonaert
Braber, Leendert
Leonardo delle Notti
Leonardo delle Notte
Nestelghat
Nestelghat was his bent-name (Hoogewerff 1952)

Monogram: LB
LVB

LvB

Qualifications: print artist, painter, draftsperson, plateel painter, decorative painter (of interiors)

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Delft (city) 1596-12-24
probably in Delft (P. Huys Janssen in Plomp et al. 1994)

Deceased: Delft (city) 1674-02/1674-02-10
buried 10 February 1674

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Said to have been the son of the painter Henricus Bramer (Saur 1996); or the son of Hendrick Bramer (Willigen/Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998). Neither can be correct, because when Bramer's mother Cristyntge (Styntge) Jans. died in 1638, she was recorded as widow, while Hendricus/Hendrick Bramer was still active c. 1650 (Stolk 2016, p. 43).

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466 hits in RKDimages as artist
20 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1384 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
1 hit in RKDtechnical as artist

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Biographical information

Active in

Delft (stad)
Arras (Frankrijk) 1614
travelled c. 1614 by way of Atrecht/Arras and Amiens to Paris
Amiens 1614
Parijs 1615
Aix-en-Provence 1616-02-15
recorded here 15 February 1616; together with Wybrand de Geest
Marseille
Genua 1617 - 1618
Livorno (stad) 1617 - 1618
Rome 1618 - 1628
reached Rome via Marseille, Genua and Livorno; Saur 1996 claims he may already have reached Rome by Easter 1616; Hoogewerff 1952 mentions 1618 and reports a sojourn in Parma; lived at Via della Croce (1619-20), Via dei Pontefici, (together with the painter Wouter Pietersz. Crabeth II (1621)) and alone in Via Ripetta (1624-1627) successively (Hoogewerff 1942 and 1952; Vodret 2011); visited the Italian cities of Venice, Florence, Mantua, Siena, Bologna, Naples and Padua, where he received several assignments (De Bie 1662); recorded in Italy for the last time in Italy October 18, 1627, when he was involved in a stabbing in which Claude Lorrain unsuccessfully tried to mediate, and was forced to leave Rome (P. Huys Janssen in: Plomp et al. 1994, p. 16)
Parma (stad)
Mantua (plaats)
Padua
Rome
Napels
Siena (plaats)
Florence
Bologna (stad)
Venetië
Meijer 1991A
Duitsland 1628
possibly on his way home from Italy (De Bie 1662; Gerson 1942/1983, p. 205)
Delft (stad) 1628 - 1648
Italië 1648 - 1656
Delft (stad) 1653 - 1674

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bloemaert, Abraham
Venne, Adriaen van de
hypothetically (Saur 1996)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Verdoel, Adriaen (I)
Vromans, Pieter (III)
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Volmarijn, Pieter Crijnse
Vromans, Abraham Pietersz.
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Thivart, Daniël
Gargiulo, Domenico

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, portrait, Christian religious scene, landscape (genre), still life, marine (genre), military genre, peasant genre, vanitas (still life), trompe-l'oeil (still life)
was often commissioned to decorate palaces and houses; his still lifes were already richly documented during the 17th century (Willigen/Meijer 2003)

Medium/technique: oil paint
Product: design for pottery decoration

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Caravaggisti

Member of

Bentvueghels
Sint-Lucasgilde (Delft)
enrolled in 1629

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 20 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

De Bie 1661-1662 , p. 252-253
Meyssens 1649 , no pages
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 164-165, 177, 236; vol. 2 (1719), p. 57 (as: Leonard Bramer)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 2 (1855), p. 1170-1171
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 170-172, vol. 3 (1911), p. 38 (as: Leonard Bramer)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 522-523 (as: Bramer, Leonard)
Gerson 1942/1983 , passim
Hoogewerff 1942 , p. 20
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 3 [1950], p. 181-184
Hoogewerff 1952 , passim
Bol 1973 , p. 201-202
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 39 (as: Bramer, Leonard)
Montias 1982 , passim
Blankert/Slatkes 1986 , p. 231-235
Blankert 1987 , p. 32 (new information concerning Bramer's series of copies after other paintings (see Plomp 1986))
Meijer 1991A , p. 88
Saur 1992- , vol. 13 (1996), p. 579 (as: Bramer, Leonaert)
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998) (Leonaert Bramer (24 Dec 1596 – buried 10 Feb 1674) alias Nestelghat. Son of Hendrick. Born at Delft. Teacher(s) not known. In 1615 he set off for Italy, staying mostly in Rome, where already he did some landscapes on slate (as known from contemporary inventories). In 1628 he was back at Delft, where he joined the guild in 1629 and where, as a hardworking bachelor devoted to his art, he is traceable till death. An extensive monograph by Jane ten Brink Goldsmith & Michiel C. Plomp, with updated oeuvre catalogue, was published in 1994 when a comprehensive exhibition was devoted to him at Delft. Bramer, painter of genre and history foremost, touched on almost all subjects. Landscapes: Though none are known today, at least four landscapes, mostly with waterfalls, figure in inventories drawn up during his lifetime at Delft (see Ten Brink, & Plomp 1994, p. 309, nrs.340-343). His known outdoor histories, sometimes with small figures (e.g. at Madrid) confirm the attention he paid to his landscape settings, incl. nights. Seascapes: Hamburg. This lone example is, probably rightly, considered today as a signed work done in Italy (where his biblical histories involving the sea were recorded as early as 1638). Fires: A fire of Troy was recorded in 1674 (Bredius, Künstler-Inventare, p.1372) (ed. M. de Kinkelder, August 2007))
Plomp et al. 1994 , passim
Schatborn/Verberne 2001 , p. 54-56 (on the Italian views attributed to Bramer; these attributions are not generally accepted)
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 49 (as: Leonaert Bramer)
Vodret 2011 , p. 74
Buijnsters-Smets 2012 , passim
Wagini 2013 , passim
Stolk 2014 , p. 42-43
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

E.W. Moes, 'Een merkwaardige verzameling teekeningen', Oud-Holland 13 (1895), p. 182-192
C. Hostede de Groot, 'Nogmaals: Een merkwaardige verzameling teekeningen', Oud-Holland 13 (1895), p. 238-240
A.J.J.M. van Peer, 'Leonard Bramer, leermeester van Jan Vermeer?', Oud-Holland 74 (1959), p. 241-243
E. Pelinck, 'Wandschilderingen met het Beleg en Ontzet van Leiden (ontwerpen van Leonard Bramer)', Leids jaarboekje 56 (1964), p. 32-38
M. J. Plomp, "Een merkwaardige verzameling Teekeningen' door Leonaert Bramer', Oud Holland 100 (1986), p. 81-153
P. Huys Janssen, 'Leonaert Bramer, his Biography as told by Documents' in: Jane ten Brink Goldsmith, Michiel C. Plomp, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674, ingenious painter and draughtsman in Rome and Delft, Zwolle 1994, p. 13-35
M. J. Plomp, 'Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674) als ontwerper van decoratie op Delfts aardewerk', Oud Holland 113 (1999), p. 197-216
M. Plomp, 'Pictorial archives: "Jordaens" in Delft', in: A. Golahny e.a., In his milieu. Essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam 2006, p. 375-384
A. Riether, 'Von Glücksfällen und Missgeschicken. Der Niederländer Leonaert Bramer illustriert den spanischen Schelmenroman Lazarillo de Tormes', Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums 2009, p. 167-184
B. van der Goes, 'Nieuwe tekeningen van Leonaert Bramer', Origine 2010, no. 5, p. 24-29
H. Colenbrander, ''Een Delfts elftal'. Andermaal 'Een merkwaardige verzameling Teekeningen' door Leonaert Bramer', in: Ch. Dumas (red.), Liber Amicorum Dorine van Sasse van Ysselt. Collegiale bijdragen over teken- en prentkunst, Den Haag 2011, p. 73-88
P. Borusowski, 'Peeping through the Keyhole: Leonaert Bramer's Perspectyfkas', Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw 1 (2013), p. 160-172
W.W. Robinson, 'The Abrams Album: An Album Amicorum of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeenth Century', Master Drawings 53 (2015), p. 3-58
S. Wagini, ''geestig van vinding en Konstig gedagt'. Ein 'Hiob im Elend« von Leonaert Bramer', in: K. Zeitler et al. (ed.), Linien - Musik des Sichtbaren. Festschrift für Michael Semff, Berlin/München 2015, p. 226-233

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Project: Gerson Digital : France
Gerson Digital : Germany
Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
Gerson Digital : Italy
Dutch Artists in Rome

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Creation date: 1991-11-25; Last modified date: 2023-08-28

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