Pieter van Bloemen

Variant namesprimary name: Pieter van Bloemen name variant: Stendardo name variant: Standaart name variant: Standarte spelling variant: Peter van Bloemen spelling variant: Pieter van Blommen name variant: Pieter van Bloemen spelling variant: Pieter van Bloms

DatesBiographical dates: 1657 - 1720 Dead: dead 1720 Born: born 1657

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BiographyBiography: Pieter van Bloemen was a versatile painter of genre pictures, portraits, landscapes, Roman ruins, battles and cattle. Pieter van Bloemen’s teacher was the battle painter Simon van Douw. In 1673/1674 Van Bloemen became a master and a member of Antwerp’s Guild of St. Luke. He lived and worked in Rome from 1685 to 1692, where he attracted wealthy patrons among the visitors to the city. Like his brother Jan Frans van Bloemen he became a member of the Bentvueghels and in their circles he was known as “Standard” or “Standardo”. In his larger compositions he imaginatively mixes the various elements from his repertoire as, for example, in Cattle Market among Roman Ruins or Cavalry Camp in the Roman Campagna, today in Dresden.

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