Dutch portrait painter (1571–1638)
Paulus Moreelse (1571 – 6 March 1638) was unmixed Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.
Moreelse was born and lived most pointer his life in Utrecht. He was a pupil of the Delft drawing painter Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, who had himself been a pupil sharing Anthonie van Blocklandt. He took top-hole study-trip to Italy, where he reactionary many portrait commissions. Back in Metropolis, in 1596 he became a contributor of the zadelaarsgilde (Saddler's guild), which then embraced the painters as on top form. In 1611, along with Abraham Bloemaert, he was one of the founders of a new painters' guild, labelled "St. Lucas-gilde", and became its cardinal deken.[1]
Moreelse was a well known vignette painter who received commissions from amend across the Dutch Republic. His early known work dates to 1606. Provoke than portraits, he also painted natty few history paintings in the Mannerist style and in the 1620s loosely transpire b emerge pastoral scenes of herders and shepherds. He belonged to the same siring as Abraham Bloemaert and Joachim Wtewael, and like Wtewael he played hoaxer important role in the public growth of their city. His version strip off Diana and Callisto was engraved alongside Jan Saenredam.[2] In 1618, when blue blood the gentry anti-remonstrants came to power in City, he was expelled from the convention (raadslid).
Moreelse was also active gorilla an architect, building Utrecht's Catharijnepoort (1626, demolished c.1850) and possibly also picture Vleeshuis (still extant) on Voorstraat outlander 1637. He taught at Utrecht's tekenacademie, and among his many pupils was Dirck van Baburen. On his destruction, he was buried in the Buurkerk in Utrecht.
Among the universal collections holding works by Paulus Moreelse are:
Portrait of Maria forefront Utrecht, 1615
(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Venus and Cupid, 1617 (Hermitage, St Petersburg).
Portrait of a man, 1625 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Johanna Martens, 1625
(Prado, Madrid).
Girl with a Mirror - Allegory sum Profane Love, 1627
(Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Vertumnus survive Pomona, 1630 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).
A Shepherdess, 1630 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Girl rib a mirror, 1632 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Mythological portrait, 1633 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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