Dominicus Claessens - Still life of fruit and musical instruments on a draped table

Dominicus Claessens (c. 1635 – c. 1690) was a Flemish still life painter and engraver.Dominicus Claessens
in the

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Life

Very little is known about Claessens' life. He was likely born in Antwerp around 1631 as on 4 July 1674 he declared (as a witness) to be 'ontrent 43 jaeren' (around 42 years old). He became a master in the

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 ...

of Antwerp in 1660–1661.

Work

He was active as a still life painter and reproductive printmaker. He made engravings for

David Teniers the Younger David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist ...

's Theatrum pictorium, a catalog of 243 Italian paintings in the

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (5 January 1614 – 20 November 1662), younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand III, was an Austrian soldier, administrator and patron of the arts. He held a number of military commands, with limited success, a ...

's collection of over 1300 paintings kept at his residence in

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. One of these engravings depicting a ''Virgin and Child accompanied by St John and an Angel'' after a painting by

Giulio Cesare Procaccini Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574–1625) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early Baroque era in Milan. Biography Born in Bologna he was son of the Mannerist painter Ercole Procaccini the Elder and brother of Camillo Procaccini and Car ...

was included by Joseph Strutt in his 1786 dictionary of engravers. Strutt was critical about Claessens' inaccurate execution of the print. D Clasens after Procaccini - Virgin and Child accompanied by St John and an Angel SVK-SNG

D Clasens after Procaccini - Virgin and Child accompanied by St John and an Angel SVK-SNG

Guild membership granted him the right to sign and date his paintings. A ''Still life of fruit and musical instruments on a draped table'' is signed and dated 1665.Still life of fruit and musical instruments on a draped table
in the

, dated 1655

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Claessens, Dominicus 1630s births 1690s deaths Painters from Antwerp Flemish still life painters Flemish Baroque painters Flemish printmakers