Reyer van Blommendael

Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades, painting from c. 1660–1670, now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.

Paris and Oenone, now at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

Sint-Bavo Saves Haarlem

Reyer Jacobsz van Blommendael (27 June 1628 (baptised) – 23 November 1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Haarlem.

Biography[]

He entered the Haarlem Guild of that city in 1662, and was buried in the St. Bavochurch there where later his sister Risje (who had previously named him in her will) was also buried.^[1] His sister's will from 1669 stated that he was living in Amsterdam, and her newer will from 1675 mentions him living in the Hague.

His works were attributed by Johannes Vermeer, Dirck van Baburen, Cesar van Everdingen, Abraham Bloemaert, Jan van Bronchorst and Gerard van Honthorst.

Works[]

• Paris and Oenone, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
• Lot and His Daughters,  [fr]
• Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades (1660s), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
• Saint Bavo Saves Haarlem (1673), St. Bavochurch, Harlem

Notes[]

References[]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Blommendaal, Reyer Jacobsz". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External link[]

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