Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Younger (1651–1704)

• Was a Flemish still life painter.
• Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Younger was born in Antwerp as the son of Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder and Paulina Uyt den Eeckhout.
• He studied with his father.
• From the guild year 1665-1666 he was formally enrolled at the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp as a pupil of the leading Antwerp still life painter Joris van Son.
• Gillemans worked in Middelburg in the Dutch Republic in 1675.
• He is believed to have worked in London in 1678.
• His wife was Isabella Maria van den Eynde, daughter of the local sculptor Norbert van den Eynde.
• After her death on 22 March 1698 he remarried with the wealthy widow Joanna van Hellefort.
• In 1696 Gillemans was elected dean of the Guild but he bought off his duties by a payment to the Guild.
• He is subsequently recorded in Amsterdam where he died in 1704.
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