Bernaert de Rijckere

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Moses saved from the waters (1556), National Museum in Warsaw.

Bernaert de Rijckere (c.1535–1590) was a Flemish Renaissance painter.

Biography

According to Karel van Mander he was born in Kortrijk and was admired there for an altarpiece depicting Christ bearing the cross, which he made for the St. Marten's church of the brothers of the Cross there.[1] He later took on a different style that Karel van Mander had heard of but had not seen to be able to judge it for himself.[1] He said he moved to Antwerp and joined the Guild of St. Luke there in 1561.[1] He died in Antwerp.

He is now often thought to be the "Monogrammist "B"", the author of a number of drawings signed with the monogram B, and a painting in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw of Moses saved from the waters is attributed to Rijckere based on one of these drawings in the Louvre (Cabinet des Dessins, inv. 19301).[2] It can be considered as one of the best of his works with a predominant influence from the School of Fontainebleau[2] with an elaborate system of allegories and crowded composition. The painting is also an alleged group portrait of the family of Henry II of France with Catherine de' Medici as mother of Moses, Diane de Poitiers as Pharaoh's daughter and Mary Stuart among other eleven personages.[3]

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History he was the teacher of his son, the painter Abraham de Rijcke, and is known for landscapes and historical allegories.[4]

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The only two earlier Antwerp history paintings owned by Rubens were ones by de Rijckere and Michiel Coxie.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (Dutch) Bernaert de Rijckere in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Teresa Armółowicz-Kosecka, Anna Dobrzycka (1973). Sztuka francuska w zbiorach polskich, 1230-1830. Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu. p. 26. 
  3. ↑ Nicole Dacos, ed. (1999). Fiamminghi a Roma: 1508-1608 : atti del Convegno internazionale : Bruxelles, 24-25 febbraio 1995. Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato. p. 236. "De même, on attribua à un Français, influencé par Fontainebleau, voire à Clouet, le 'Moïse sauvé des eaux' de Varsovie en identifiant Diane de Poitiers, Catherine de Médicis." 
  4. ↑ Bernaert de Rijckere in the RKD
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