Dominicus Claessens (c. 1635 – c. 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver. 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

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 id ...

in Antwerp in 1660–1661. He previously 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 ar ...

for his

Theatrum pictorium ''Theatrum Pictorium'', or ''Theatre of Painting'', is a short-hand name of a book published in the 1660s by David Teniers the Younger for his employer, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. It was a catalog of 243 Italian paintings in the Arc ...

. One of these engravings was included by Joseph Strutt in his 1786 dictionary of engravers, though he felt that it was an inaccurate execution. Guild membership granted him the right to sign and date his paintings, and a still-life of fruit on a table is signed and dated 1665.Still life of fruit and musical instruments on a draped table
in the

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, dated 1655

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1620s births 1690s deaths Painters from Antwerp Artists from Brussels Flemish Baroque painters {{Netherlands-painter-stub