Discover painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter Abraham Bloemaert

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter, print artist

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Gorinchem (place) 1566-12-25
According to Van Mander the artist was 37 years old in 1604 and 38 years old at Christmas 1604. According to many other sources Bloemaert was born on December 25th, 1564 (Houbraken 1718/1719); in Ruurs 1993 however, it is shown that 1566 is the most probable birth year. This is accepted by Roethlisberger/Bok 1993, p. 551.

Deceased: Utrecht (city) 1651-01-27

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of the sculptor Cornelis I Bloemaert and of Aeltgen Willems. Married 1) in Amsterdam on 2 May 1592 Judith van Schonenburch (died 1599) and 2) in Utrecht on 12 October 1600 Gerarda de Roy, together parents of painters Hendrick, Cornelis II, Adriaen and Frederick Bloemaert

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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924 hits in RKDimages as artist
42 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author
4072 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
47 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Biographical information

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Utrecht (stad) 1576
since 1584 he lived with his parents, brothers, and sisters in Rietsteeg, now Keizerstraat (Roethlisberger/Bok 1993, p. 554); in Utrecht he was a student of his father as well as Gerrit Splinter (only two weeks) and thereafter Joos de Beer (Roethlisberger/Bok 1993, p. 554 and 555)
Parijs 1581 - 1585
ca. 1581/82-1585, worked there with the artists Iehan Bassot and ‘Maistre Herri’; thereafter a longer period with Hieronymus Francken; in 1585 he was again back in Utrecht (Roethlisberger/Bok 1993, p. 557)
Fontainebleau 1581 - 1585
probably somewhere during this period
Utrecht (stad) 1585 - 1591
Amsterdam (stad) 1591 - 1593
in Fall 1591 registered as a citizen of Amsterdam; after the death of his father in 1593 he left Amsterdam; was elected in 1594 dean of the Utrecht Saddle Makers Guild and shortly thereafter became citizen ('poorter') of Utrecht
Utrecht (stad) 1594 - 1651
was co-founder of the Utrecht guild in 1611; was on the board in 1618 (Saur 1995). In 1626 Bloemaert's studio was visited by Elisabeth of Bohemia, who bought a painting of her dog Babler (Sainsbury 1859)

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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.: Bassot, Jean
Beer, Joos de
Blocklandt van Montfoort, Anthonie
Bloemaert, Cornelis (I)
Francken, Hieronymus (I)
Splinter, Gerrit
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.: Aerntsz. de Hel, Jan
Almeloveen, Abraham Jacobsz. van
Beer, Cornelius de
Bercheyck, Nicolaes van
Bijlert, Jan van
Bloemaert, Adriaen
Bloemaert, Cornelis (II)
Bloemaert, Frederick
Bloemaert, Hendrick
Both, Andries
Both, Jan
Bramer, Leonaert
Breenbergh, Bartholomeus
Brugghen, Hendrick ter
Cuyp, Jacob Gerritsz.
Drielenburg, Willem van
Geest, Wybrand de (I)
Griffet, Samuel Samuelsz.
Heemskerck, Jan Gerritsz. van
Honthorst, Gerard van
Honthorst, Willem van
Knüpfer, Nicolaes
Munniks alias Munnichhoven, Hendrick
Pithan, Frederick
Poelenburch, Cornelis van
Poll, Johannes Lucasz. van de
Sande, Johan Michielsz. van de
Schoock, Hendrik
Schoor, Aelbert Jansz. van der
Schouten, Antonie
Sompeecken, Augustijn Gerritsz.
Splinter, Robert Jansz.
Stom, Matthias
Swanevelt, Herman van
Voorst, Dirck van
Waerdt, Quintijnus de
Weenix, Jan Baptist
Zanen, Peter Petersz. van

also had Augustijn van Sonsbeeck and Lurens van Nyerndaell as his pupils before 1590 (De Jager 1990)
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.: Buytewech, Willem (II)
Claudot, Jean Baptiste Charles
Gertner, Christoph
Meesters van het Van Eeghen Tekenboek
Monogrammist FP
Schagen, Eeuwout van
Schiaminossi, Raffaello
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Boucher, François
Brunetti, Orazio
Ceruti, Giacomo
Haven, Salomon von
Huet, Jean-Baptiste (I)
La Traverse, Charles-François de
Raoux, Jean
Sandby, Paul
Vos, E. (tekenaar)
Wright of Derby, Joseph

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, mythology, Christian religious scene, allegory, history (genre), landscape (genre), still life, vanitas (still life)
A still life with partridge and kettle from 1642 cannot be his work, but is possibly from the Middelburg landscape painter Abraham Blommaert; a vanitas still life at Christie’s Amsterdam on November 28th, 1989; before 1604 there was already a skull in the collection of Jacques Razet, which is today known from an engraving by Jan Saenredam; a large vanitas still life with the Holy Hieronymus in a Dutch private collection (Willigen/Meijer 2003).

Medium/technique: oil paint

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

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Sint-Lucasgilde (Utrecht)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 42 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

Van Mander 1604 , p. 297v-298r
Meyssens 1649 , not paginated
De Bie 1661-1662 , p. 43-46 (portrait p. 45, Hendrick Bloemaert pinx., Hendrick Snijers sculp.)
Baldinucci 1681-1728/1725-1730/1974-1975 , vol. 3, p. 623-626
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 11, 43-45, 120, 365; vol. 2 (1719), p. 77, 114, 131, 132, 147, 150 (as: Abraham Bloemaart)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 2 (1854), p. 626-629
Sainsbury 1859 , p. 293, note 24
Muller 1880 , p. 93, 95, 98, 109, 118, 126, 128
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 5 (1882-1883), p. 333-335 (A. de Kruyff, 'Iets over Abr. Blommaert of Bloemmaert')
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 109-111 (as: Abraham Bloemaert)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 125-126 (as: Bloemaert, Abraham)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 390
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 2 [1950], p. 61-69
Eller 1971 , p. 335, 408
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 31
Nicolson 1979 , vol. 1, p. 64--65
Haak 1984 , p. 172-173, 208-209 and 313-315
Sutton 1984 , p. 59
Blankert/Slatkes 1986 , p. 208-217
Sutton/Blankert 1987 , p. 270-273
Luijten et al. 1993 , p. 300-301
Saur 1992- , vol. 11 (1995), p. 547 ff.
Spicer/Orr/Bok 1997 , p. 375-376
Weller et al. 1998 , p. 81-88
Horn 2000 , p. 94, 115, 357, 591
Harwood et al. 2002 , p. 72
Neumeister 2003 , p. 192-199
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 39 (as: Abraham Bloemaert)
Verheggen 2006 , passim
Van Eck 2008 , p. 18-49 and passim
Ketelsen et al. 2011 , passim
Kwak 2014 , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

C. Müller, 'Abraham Bloemaert als Landschaftsmaler', Oud-Holland 44 (1927), p. 193-208
Chr. Dittrich, 'Unbekannte Zeichnungen des Abraham Bloemaerts. Neubestimmungen und Neuerwerbungen im Kupferstichkabinett Dresden', Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden 17 (1976-1977), p. 89-102
R. Shoolman Slatkin, 'Abraham Bloemaert and François Boucher: affinity and relationship', Master Drawings 14 (1976), p. 247-260
B. Broos, 'Abraham Bloemaert en de Vader van de Schilderkunst', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 38 (1987), p. 62-72
Ch.J.A. Wansink, 'Van Bloem- en andere 'aertse' geneugten op een tekening in de verzameling Van Leeuwen', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 38 (1987), p. 397-401
B. Broos, 'Not two, but three scenes from the Historiae Aethiopicae by Abraham Bloemaert', Mercury no. 5 (1987), p. 3-10
J. Bolten, 'De herkomst van enkele vroege getekende inventies van Abraham Bloemaert van het thema Rust op de vlucht naar Egypte', in: Was getekend... Tekenkunst door de eeuwen heen. Liber amicorum prof.dr. E.K.J. Reznicek ( = Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 38, 1987), p. 26-39
J. Bolten, 'Een festival procession van Abraham Bloemaert thuisgebracht', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 1, August 1989, p. 4-6
J. Bolten, 'Macarius of Macarus? Notes on Abraham Bloemaert's drawings of anchorites', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 2, December 1989, p. 11-19
R. Ruurs, 'The date of Abraham Bloemaert's Birth', Mercury no. 9, 1989, p. 4-5
R. de Jager, ‘Meester, leerjongen, leertijd. Een analyse van zeventiende-eeuwse Noord-Nederlandse leerlingcontracten van kunstschilders, goud- en zilversmeden’, Oud Holland 104 (1990), p. 69-111, esp. p. 103, nos. 36-38
M. Roethlisberger, 'Abraham Bloemaert's "Farmers in the Fields"', Mercury (1990), no. 11, p. 14-21
M. Roethlisberger, 'Abraham Bloemaert's Vanitas representations', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 5 (May 1991), p. 20-27
J. Bolten, 'Abraham Bloemaert (15640-1651) and his Tekenboek', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 9, March 1993, p. 1-10
J. Bolten, 'The portraits of Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 10, June 1993, p. 1-34
M.G. Roethlisberger, 'Early Abraham Bloemaert', Tableau 17 (1994), no. 3, December, p. 44-51
M.G. Roethlisberger, 'Vijf versies van één keukenstuk. Abraham Bloemaert als schilder van een populair genre', Antiek 6 (1996), Januari, p. 257-267
W.S. Melion, The Burlington Magazine 140 (1998) p. 689-690, review of Seelig 1997
J. Bolten, 'The Beginnings of Abraham Bloemaert's Artistic Career', Master Drawings 36 (1998), p. 17-25
X. van Eck, 'The artist's reiligon: paintings commissioned for clandestine Catholic churches in the northern Netherlands, 1600-1800', Simiolus 27 (1999), p. 70-94
M. Roethlisberger, 'Abraham Bloemaert: Recent Additions to his Paintings', Artibus et historiae 41 (2000), p. 151-169
W.S. Gibson, 'Bloemaert's privy: the rustic ruin in Dutch art', in: S.D. Kuretsky et al., exh. cat. Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, Poughkeepsie (Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center) 2005, p. 63-72
F.W. Robinson, 'Abraham Bloemaert. Studies of a goat, recto and verso', in: In Arte Venustas. Studies on drawings in honour of Térez Gerszi, Budapest 2007, p. 125-126
J. Bolten, 'Abraham Bloemaert. "... some persons in an room..."', in: In Arte Venustas. Studies on drawings in honour of Térez Gerszi, Budapest 2007, p. 127-128
Kunstschrift 55 (2011), no. 5: special volume in relation to the exhibition in Utrecht, with contributions of E. de Jongh, M.-J. Bok et al.
F. Geurdes, 'Verscholen pracht. Abraham Bloemaert en zijn werk voor de Utrechtse schuilkerken', Oud-Utrecht 84 (2011), p. 184-189
J. Bolten, 'Abraham Bloemaert's Niobids', in: Ch. Dumas (ed.), Liber Amicorum Dorine van Sasse van Ysselt. Collegiale bijdragen over teken- en prentkunst, The Hague 2011, p. 67-72
X. van Eck, 'Father of the Utrecht School: Abraham Bloemaert', Kunstchronik 65 (2012), no. 3, p. 137-141 (review of exh.cat. 2011-2012)
M. Plomp, review of J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert c. 1565-1651. The drawings, I – II, privately printed 2007, Oud Holland 125 (2012), p. 215-220
M. Roethlisberger, 'More Paintings by Abraham Bloemaert and Hendrick Goltzius', Oud Holland 127 (2014), p. 79-92
J. Bolten, 'The drawings of Abraham Bloemaert: A supplement ', Master Drawings 55 (2017), p. 3-120
J. Bolten, Ábraham Bloemaert and the concept of reality', Delineavit et Sculpsit 41 (May 2017), p. 48-52

E. Nogrady, Abraham Bloemaert, Artistic collaboration, and the 'Netherlandish Academy' in seventeenth-century Utrecht, diss. in preparation IFA/NYU, M. Westermann) Art Bulletin 90/2 (June 2008), p. 329

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