Barend van Someren (1572–1632) was a Flemish painter and printmaker who after training and working in Antwerp, worked a few years in Rome and finally took up residence in Amsterdam in the
Dutch Republic
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. He is reported to have painted
history
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and landscape paintings but no known paintings by him have been identified. He was also active as an art dealer, publisher and innkeeper.
[Barend van Someren]
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
Life
Van Someren was born in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ...
. He was the brother of
Paul van Somer I.
[Bernaert van Somer]
in 's '' Schilder-boeck'', 1604] He trained in his hometown with Filips Lisaert the Younger. He traveled to Rome in 1600 where he resided until 1602. In Rome he worked in the workshop of
Aert Mijtens. He married Mijtens' daughter Dianora. He left Rome for Amsterdam in 1602.
[
Van Someren operated an inn in Amsterdam. The Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer stayed in this inn when he first arrived in the Dutch Republic in 1625.][Matthias Depoorter, 'Adriaen Brouwer']
at Baroque in the Southern Netherlands
His pupils were his son Hendrick, Daniël van den Bremden, and Willem Cornelisz Duyster. Van Someren died in Amsterdam
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.
Work
No extant paintings by him are known. He is reported to have painted history and landscape paintings.[ A few prints by his hand are portraits of religious and historical figures such as the ''Judas Taddeüs''.Barend van Someren, ''Portret van Anthonie Schets, Baron van Grobbendonck'']
at the Rijksmuseum
References
External links
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1572 births
1632 deaths
Dutch male painters
Dutch Golden Age painters
Flemish publishers
Flemish history painters
Flemish landscape painters
Flemish printmakers
Painters from Antwerp
