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Historical Artist - Jan Boeckhorst (1604 - 1668)
Born in either Germany or Belgium in 1604, very few of Jan Boeckhorst’s paintings are
known. At the age of 24, he moved to Antwerp and studied under Peter Paul Rubens and
collaborated with Frans Snyders and Jan Wildens. Other Baroque Flemish artists, Jacob Jordaens
and Anthony van Dyck, also influenced his work. After Rubens’s death in 1640, Boeckhorst
completed his unfinished works. In addition to receiving a number of commissions in the
1630’s, he traveled throughout Italy that year. Upon his return, he created altarpieces
and designed tapestries and prints. Boeckhorst also completed many historical, religious, and
mythological paintings for independent buyers. He had a close relationship with Rubens's studio,
finishing paintings designed by that master as well as assisting with large series such as the
joyous entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635 and the Torre de la Parada. In the 1650s and
1660s Boeckhorst painted altarpieces for churches throughout Flanders and designed cartoons for
tapestries. The expressiveness of Van Dyck's figures and use of colors, such as in Achilles
among the Daughters of Lycomedes (Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), is also
noticeable in works from this period.
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