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Jan van Bijlert (1597-1671)
Aliases: Jan "van" Bijlert; Jan Hermansz. Bijlert; Jan Van Bijlert; Giovanni Bilardo; Jan "van" Bylaert; Jan "van" Bylert
Professions: Painter
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*JAN VAN BIJLERT (1597/8-1671)
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f - JAN VAN BIJLERT UTRECHT 1597/8 - 1671
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Jan van Bijlert (Utrecht 1597/8-1671)
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CERCHIA DI JAN VAN BIJLERT UTRECHT 1597/8 - 1671
Jan van Bijlert Biography
(b Utrecht, ?1597–8; d Utrecht, bur 12 Nov 1671). Dutch painter. He was the son of the Utrecht glass painter Herman Beerntsz. van Bijlert (c . 1566–before 1615). Jan must have trained first with his father but was later apprenticed to the painter Abraham Bloemaert. After his initial training, he visited France and travelled to Italy, as did other artists from Utrecht. Jan stayed mainly in Rome, where he became a member of the Schildersbent; he returned to Utrecht in 1624. In Rome he and the other Utrecht artists had come under the influence of the work of Caravaggio; after their return home, this group of painters, who became known as the UTRECHT CARAVAGGISTI, adapted the style of Caravaggio to their own local idiom. The Caravaggesque style, evident in van Bijlert’s early paintings, such as St Sebastian Tended by Irene (1624; Rohrau, Schloss; see fig.) and The Matchmaker (1626; Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.), is characterized by the use of strong chiaroscuro, the cutting off of the picture plane so that the image is seen close-up and by an attempt to achieve a realistic rather than idealized representation. Van Bijlert continued to paint in this style throughout the 1620s, a particularly productive period.
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Jan van Bijlert (Utrecht c.1597/8-1671)
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*JAN VAN BIJLERT (1597/8-1671)
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Jan van Bijlert Utrecht 1603-1671
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Jan van Bijlert , Utrecht 1597/8 - 1671 a shepherd, wearing a plumed hat, holding a staff in his right hand oil on panel, in an elaborate carved parcel gilt frame
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f - Jan van Bijlert Utrecht 1597/8 - 1671 , a young man, half-length, wearing a burgundy jacket and a feathered cap oil on panel, unframed
