Coenraet Roepel

Koenraet Roepel pictured on the right in Jan van Gool's Schouwburg, after a portrait by Richard van Bleeck.

Coenraet Roepel (1678, The Hague – 1748, The Hague), was an 18th-century fruit and flower still life painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

Fruit still life in a niche

According to Jan van Gool he was an avid gardener and his love of flowers made him become a pupil of Constantijn Netscher so that he could paint the flowers and other plants in his garden.[1] He travelled to Düsseldorf in 1716 and received a gold chain and medal from Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine for his work.[1] He had high hopes of painting more for the elector, but his patron died the same year, so Coenraet returned to the Netherlands.[1] On his return, he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1718 and was very successful in The Hague, receiving as much as 1,000 guilders for a work, but was later eclipsed by the flower painter Jan van Huysum.[1]

According to the RKD he was trained in the Confrerie in the years 1698-1699 and first became a member there in 1711.[2] His pupil was Pieter Terwesten.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 (Dutch) Koenraet Roepel, Part 1, page 426 in Nieuwe Schouburg (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the Institute of Dutch History
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Coenraet Roepel in the RKD