Sebastiaen Vrancx

Category
ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHY - ARCHITECTURE

Language
FLEMISH

Sebastiaen Vrancx, Sebastiaan Vrancx or Sebastian Vranckx[1] was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and designer of prints who is mainly known for his battle scenes, a genre that he pioneered in Netherlandish painting. He also created landscapes with mythological and allegorical scenes, scenes with robbers, village scenes and celebrations in cities.[2] He was a gifted figure painter who was regularly invited to paint the staffage in compositions of fellow painters. As an active member of a local chamber of rhetoric, he wrote comedies and a number of poems. He was further captain of the Antwerp civil militia schutterij.[3]

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