Jeremias van Winghe (1578 – 1645)

• Was a Flemish painter.
• Jeremias van Winghe was born in Brussels in 1578 as the son of Joos van Winghe.
• The family van Winghe left the Southern Netherlands in 1584, possibly because of the Spanish repression at that time.
• They established themselves in Frankfurt am Main.
• Jeremias van Winghe likely started his training with his father.
• When his father died in 1603, he went to study with the Flemish painter Frans Badens who resided in Amsterdam.
• After spending time in Italy, Jeremias van Winghe established himself in Frankfurt am Main.
• On marrying Anne Maria Mertens, the daughter of a jeweller, in 1616, he abandoned painting in favour of working in his father-in-law's business.
• He returned to painting later around 1640, and the break in his artistic activity partially explains the scarcity of his known oeuvre.
• He was an accomplished still life painter and painter of kitchen scenes.
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