Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen (c. 1595 – 1624)

• Was a Dutch painter, one of the Utrecht Caravaggisti.
• He was also known as Teodoer van Baburen and Theodor Baburen.
• He was a pupil of Paulus Moreelse in 1611.
• Sometime between 1612 and 1615 he travelled to Rome.
• There, he collaborated with fellow countryman David de Haen and befriended Bartolomeo Manfredi.
• Baburen belonged to the group of Dutch-speaking artists active in Rome in the seventeenth-century known as the "Bentvueghels" ("Birds of a Feather").
• His nickname was "Biervlieg" ("Beer Fly", or one who drinks a lot).
• In late 1620 Baburen returned to Utrecht, where he began painting genre scenes.
• Until his death in 1624 the painter, along with Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerard van Honthorst he helped establish the Utrecht School of Caravaggisti.
• He was buried on 28 February 1624 in the Buurkerk.
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