Jan Frans van Bloemen
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Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662-1740) was a Flemish landscape painter of the Baroque period.
He was born at Antwerp, and studied and lived in Rome. He was nicknamed Orizonte, on account of the distance he painted in his landscapes, which are reminiscent of Gaspard Poussin and Claude Lorrain. His landscapes have an Arcadian lushness, with mountains, streams, distant hamlets, and small inhabitants painted with imprecise pittori di tocco flourishes.
While van Bloemen was a much locally patronized painter of the Roman Schildersbent or Netherlandish painters guild, he was unable to gain acceptance into the pre-eminent Roman painter's guild, the Accademia di San Luca, till he was over 70 years old. Some of this resistance may have arisen from the Roman establishment disdain for landscape painting as a demonstration of skill. His brothers Pieter (1657-1719), nicknamed Stan-daart (from his military pictures), and Norbert van Bloemen (1670-1746) were also well-known painters. Caspar van Wittel was the godfather of his first child.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Web Gallery of Art: Biography
