Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen d.y.

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen d.y.

DatesBiographical dates: 1664 - 1730 Dead: dead 1730 Born: born 1664

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BiographyBiography: The painter’s early artistic training was spent in the workshop of his father Gaspar Verbruggen I. He was elected a member of the Guild of Antwerp in 1676, when aged only twelve, and became the director of the Guild in 1691. In 1703 he was declared bankrupt and he fled to Amsterdam to avoid his creditors in 1705. Exiled from Amsterdam he left for The Hague in 1706 where in 1708 he was elected a member of the Guild. In 1723 he returned to Antwerp and died there in 1730. Verbruggen, who specialized in flower and still life painting, became very famous in his own lifetime and he collaborated with a great number of contemporary artists. No works by his hand dated later than 1703 are known today

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