Lucas van Uden

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Lucas van Uden (Antwerp, 18 October 1595–4 November 1672) was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes.

[edit] Biography

Lucas van Uden entered Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1626–27. Although he was never part of Peter Paul Rubens's studio, his works are partly indebted to that master. Van Uden even made copies of Rubens's works on several occasions. His technique, however, owes as much to earlier painters like Joos de Momper and Jan Brueghel the Elder. General characteristics are a tonally-green recessive view punctuated by slender trees and populated by incidental pastoral and peasant figures. Many of Van Uden's fugures were either copied from Rubens or painted by David Teniers the Younger. He is often associated with fellow landscape painter Jan Wildens.

[edit] Sources

• Hans Devisscher, "Uden, Lucas van," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [November 9, 2007].
• Hans Vlieghe (1998). Flemish art and architecture, 1585-1700. Pelican history of art. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300070381