Carel van Savoyen

Carel van Savoyen
Carel van Savoyen in Het Gulden Cabinet
Birth name	Carel van Savoyen
Born	1619 Antwerp
Died	24 January 1665(1665-01-24) (aged 45) Amsterdam
Nationality	Flemish
Field	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Carel van Savoyen (1619–1665), also known as Carlo da Savoia, was a Flemish painter of the Baroque period.

Biography

He was the brother of the painter Filips van Savoyen. He became betrothed on 20 April 1649 with Catharina Wandelman, saying then he was 28 years of age, and from then on lived and painted in Amsterdam. He was a student of Jan Cossiers.^[1] According to Houbraken he painted a painting of Adonis and Venus that was the subject of a poem by Jan Vos.^[2]

Legacy

A painting by his hand of Jan de Doot holding a kidney stone in the shape of an egg, hangs in the Anatomy museum in Leiden, part of the University of Leiden.

References

^ entry for Carel van Savoyen in the RKD
^ Karel van Savoyen biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

Persondata
Name	Savoyen, Carel Van
Alternative names	da Savoia, Carlo
Short description	painter
Date of birth	6 June 1619
Place of birth	Antwerp
Date of death	24 January 1665
Place of death	Amsterdam