Ignatius Josephus Van Regemorter (1785-1873)

• Was a Flemish historical, landscape, and genre painter and engraver.
• Born at Antwerp in 1785.
• He studied under his father, Petrus Johannes.
• Both Ignatius and his father were also active as dealers, picture restorers and copyists.
• The Van Regemorters seem to have altered some of the 17th-century paintings that passed through their hands to suit contemporary taste.
• He specialised in anecdotal scenes reminiscent of 17th-century Dutch genre paintings.
• He died at Antwerp in 1873.
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