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Adriaen Brouwer (1605 - January 1638) was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
At a young age Brouwer, probably born as Adriaen de Brauwer in Oudenaarde, moved perhaps via Antwerp to Haarlem, where he became a student of Frans Hals alongside Adriaen van Ostade. He also was active in stage acting and poetry. He stayed in Haarlem and Amsterdam until 1631, when he moved back to Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. There, he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1631-1632, as well as the rhetoricians's chamber De Violieren.
Tradition has it that Brouwer himself spent much time in the alehouses of Flanders and Holland. His works are typically detailed and small, and often adopt themes of debauchery, drunkenness and foolishness in order to explore human emotions, expressions and responses to pain, fear and the senses. The Bitter Tonic is an example of the type of work that depicts such responses, in this case the sense of taste. His work was well liked, to the point that forgeries were sold in his own time. Both Rubens and Rembrandt owned a number of his works. Nevertheless, Brouwer appeared in financial trouble throughout his life.
He died at the early age of 32 in Antwerp, where he was first buried in a common grave. |
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ID de tableau:: 84856 Youth Making a Face Youth Making a Face
Date between 1632(1632) and 1635(1635)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 13.7 x 10.5 cm (5.4 x 4.1 in)
cjr Date between 1632(1632) and 1635(1635)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 13.7 x 10.5 cm (5.4 x 4.1 in)
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ID de tableau:: 85289 Youth Making a Face Youth Making a Face
Date c. 1632/1635
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 13.7 x 10.5 cm (5.4 x 4.1 in)
cjr Date c. 1632/1635
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 13.7 x 10.5 cm (5.4 x 4.1 in)
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ID de tableau:: 86033 Peasants Smoking and Drinking Peasants Smoking and Drinking
c. 1635(1635)
Medium Oil on wood
cyf c. 1635(1635)
Medium Oil on wood
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ID de tableau:: 86334 The Smokers The Smokers
1636
Medium oil on wood
Dimensions 46.4 x 36.8 cm (18.3 x 14.5 in)
cyf 1636
Medium oil on wood
Dimensions 46.4 x 36.8 cm (18.3 x 14.5 in)
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ID de tableau:: 86546 Peasant Inn Peasant Inn
Oil on wood
Dimensions 27 x 35 cm (10.6 x 13.8 in)
cyf Oil on wood
Dimensions 27 x 35 cm (10.6 x 13.8 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer (1605 - January 1638) was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
At a young age Brouwer, probably born as Adriaen de Brauwer in Oudenaarde, moved perhaps via Antwerp to Haarlem, where he became a student of Frans Hals alongside Adriaen van Ostade. He also was active in stage acting and poetry. He stayed in Haarlem and Amsterdam until 1631, when he moved back to Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. There, he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1631-1632, as well as the rhetoricians's chamber De Violieren.
Tradition has it that Brouwer himself spent much time in the alehouses of Flanders and Holland. His works are typically detailed and small, and often adopt themes of debauchery, drunkenness and foolishness in order to explore human emotions, expressions and responses to pain, fear and the senses. The Bitter Tonic is an example of the type of work that depicts such responses, in this case the sense of taste. His work was well liked, to the point that forgeries were sold in his own time. Both Rubens and Rembrandt owned a number of his works. Nevertheless, Brouwer appeared in financial trouble throughout his life.
He died at the early age of 32 in Antwerp, where he was first buried in a common grave.
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