Adriaen van Stalbemt (1580 – 1662)

• Was a Flemish painter and printmaker.
• Adriaen van Stalbemt was born on 12 June 1580 in Antwerp.
• He was admitted in 1610 as a master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke.
• In 1616 Hans Mesmaeckers was registered as his pupil.
• In 1617 he was elected dean of the Guild.
• He established himself as a painter of landscapes but was also a capable staffage and animal painter.
• He worked on commissions for the art dealer Peter Goetkint II for whom he made cabinet paintings, i.e. small paintings on copper that were integrated into cabinets.
• On 5 May 1613, van Stalbemt married Barbara Verdelft.
• A daughter born to the couple died young and the couple remained childless.
• In 1633 the artist was active in London for about ten months.
• During his stay he painted two landscape views of Greenwich with King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria (still in the Royal Collection).
• He died on 21 September 1662.
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