Abraham Govaerts

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Abraham Govaerts, Holy Family with John the Baptist in a Forest Landscape, oil on canvas.
Abraham Govaerts, Holy Family with John the Baptist in a Forest Landscape, oil on canvas.

Abraham Govaerts (Antwerp, 1589–9 September 1626) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo.[1] He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1607–1608, and subsequently trained several other painters in including Alexander Keirincx.[2] Govaerts' paintings, such as A Forest View with the Sacrifice of Isaac (Alte Pinakothek, Munich), typically show diminutive history, mythological or biblical subjects within a Mannerist three-color universal landscape bracketed by repoussoir trees.[1] The figures were often added by other artists, especially by members of the Francken family.[1]


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Hans Vlieghe (1998). Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700. Pelican History of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 180–181. ISBN 0300070381
  2. ^ Hans Devisscher, "Govaerts [Goevaerts; Gouvaert; Goyvaert], Abraham," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed November 11, 2007].
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