Bernard de BailliuBernard de Bailliu
at the

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(1641 in

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– after 1684 in Antwerp or Rome) was a Flemish reproductive engraver who was active in Antwerp and Rome.

Life

Bernard de Bailliu was born in Antwerp as the oldest son of the engraver Pieter de Bailliu and Elisabeth van Engelen. He was the brother of the engravers Pieter II (or Peeter-Frans) and Jan Baptist. He trained and worked in the workshop of his father for several years. He became a member of the Antwerp

Guild of Saint Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was iden ...

in 1662.Bernard de Bailliu
at Hadrianus He travelled in 1668 to Rome. Here he joined the

Bentvueghels The Bentvueghels (Dutch for "Birds of a Feather") were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent ("painters' clique"). Activities The members, which incl ...

, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing nickname, the so-called 'bent name'. He was given the bent name ''Hemel'', meaning 'heaven'.Bernard de Bailliu Biography
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Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'', 1718 Although he last appears in records in Rome in 1671, he must still have been a resident in 1684 as he created a ''Portrait of Pietro Cardinal Basadonna'' after

Godfrey Kneller Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723) was a German-born British painter. The leading Portrait painting, portraitist in England during the late Stuart period, Stuart and early Georgian eras ...

in Rome in that year. It is not clear where he died, Rome or Antwerp. The time of his death is placed between 1684 and 1704.

Work

Bernard de Bailliu was a reproductive engraver who specialised in portraits and historical themes. He collaborated on a series of portraits of cardinals published in Rome by

Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi or Latinized Ioannes Iacobus de Rubeis (1627–1691) was an Italian printer and publisher of engravings, active in Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipalit ...

.Barend de Bailliu, ''Portrait of cardinal Niccolo Acciaiuolo''
at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bailliu, Bernard de 1641 births 1684 deaths 17th-century Flemish engravers Artists from Antwerp Members of the Bentvueghels