Johannes Glauber (1646 - c. 1726)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• According to Houbraken he became a painter against the wishes of his father, the chemist Johann Rudolph Glauber.
• He became a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem on his own.
• He was living with Gerrit van Uylenburgh and working on copies of Italianate landscapes for a growing market of connoisseurs in Amsterdam.
• After the death of his father, he travelled with his brother Johannes Gottlieb Glauber and the two brothers Van Doren by boat to Paris.
• In Paris Glauber stayed a year painting for Mr. Picart.
• Then he travelled to Lyon, where he stayed for two years painting for Adriaen van der Kabel.
• He then travelled to Italy with his brother and two French painters.
• After 6 months in Rome he joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname Coridon, but since he knew that name had already been given to Van der Cabel, they changed it to Polidoor.
• He was friends with Karel Dujardin in Rome, who didn't want to join the Bentvueghels, but who received the somewhat negative nickname Bokkebaard (goatee) anyway.
• After 2 years in Rome he set off for Padua with his brother and the Flemish painter Robbert Duval, where they stayed a year.
• After that they travelled to Venice, where they stayed two years. • They finally left Italy in 1679 and went north to Hamburg, where they lived until 1684.
• After 1684 Johannes left his brother to return to Amsterdam, where he lived with Gerard de Lairesse.
• Houbraken mentions the house of Jacob de Flines on Herengracht 132, which Glauber helped decorate along with De Lairesse and Frederick de Moucheron.
• That house burned in 2008, but the wall paintings had been removed in 1910 and are located today in Beeckestijn.
• According to the RKD Glauber was the brother of the painter Diana Glauber.
• He was the teacher of the painter Willem Troost.
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