Carel Pietersz. Fabritius (1622-1654)

• Was a Dutch painter.
• Carel Pietersz. Fabritius was born in February 1622 in Middenbeemster.
• He was the son of Pieter Carelsz., a painter and schoolteacher, and he had two younger brothers, Barent and Johannes, who also became painters.
• In the early 1640s he studied at Rembrandt's studio in Amsterdam, along with his brother Barent.
• In the early 1650s he moved to Delft, and joined the Delft painters' guild in 1652. 
• Fabritius died young, caught in the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine on 12 October 1654, which destroyed a quarter of the city, along with his studio and many of his paintings.
• Only about a dozen paintings have survived.
• According to Houbraken, his student Mattias Spoors and the church deacon Simon Decker died with him, since they were working on a painting together at the time.
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