Carel de Vogelaer (1653 - 1695)

• Was a Dutch still life painter.
• Vogelaer was born in Maastricht as the son of Pieter de Vogelaer who was also an artist.

• From 1668 he travelled through France where he visited Lyon.

• Around 1671 he moved to Rome.

• He is first mentioned in 1675 in the records of the Bentvueghels.

• When he joined the Bentvueghels he took the nickname 'Distelbloem', meaning "thistle flower".

• The thistle is incorporated in many of his paintings as a coded signature.

• His friends were Luigi Garzi, Gaulli and Maratta, later Franz Werner Tamm from Hamburg, with whom he often collaborated.

• In Rome Carel de Vogelaer shared a house with fellow Flemish painter Anthoni Schoonjans in the Via Margutta in the mid 1680s.

• He trained or worked in the studio of Carlo Maratti.

• He worked with other well-known artists, like Luigi Garzi, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Anthoni Schoonjans and Filippo Lauri and Mario Nuzzi. 

• He died in Rome at the age of 42.

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