Abraham Bloemaert (25 December 1566 – 27 January 1651) was a Dutch

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. He initially worked in the style of the " Haarlem Mannerists", but by the beginning of the 17th-century altered his style in line with the new

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style that was then developing. He mostly painted history subjects and some landscapes. He was an important teacher, who trained most of the Utrecht Caravaggisti.

Life

Bloemaert was born in

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, the son of the architect Cornelis Bloemaert I, who moved his family to Utrecht in 1575, where Abraham was first a pupil of Gerrit Splinter (pupil of Frans Floris) and of Joos de Beer.