Karel Slabbaert (1618 – 1654 in

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; † before November 6, 1654, in

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) was a Dutch painter and draftsman. The artist worked in Middelburg between 1634 and 1654 . His work includes portraits, genre scenes and still lives. He was a

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painter who died at an young age. Slabbaert was born in

in the year 1618. His earliest dated work is recorded as 1641 and he got engaged to Cornelia Bouwers of Rotterdam on 8th April 1645.Slabbaert in the

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His works show familiarity with

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's studio and he was in Amsterdam in 1645 while being a member of the painter's guild in

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the same year. He became the Dean of the Middelburg Guild in 1653, and he died in the same place a year later.

Life

Little is known about the artist's life and only a small number of his works - mostly genre scenes - have survived. Slabbaert was born around 1619 in Zierikzee in the Dutch province of

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. He married in Amsterdam in 1645 and settled in Middelburg. Here he headed the Guild of St. Luke in 1653. The painter Abraham Borm († 1668) was one of his students. In his group portrait with soldiers (Mauritshuis Den Haag), he depicted himself in the foreground. A ''portrait of a painter'' (

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, Frankfurt am Main) a self-portrait of the artist. Karel Slabbaert died in Leiden in 1654 and was buried in Middelburg on November 6 of that year. File:Karel Slabbaert - A toebackje still life.jpg, ''Toebackje'' still life, 1641 File:Karel Slabbaert - Portrait of Cornelia Bouwers, the artist’s wife 75 slabbaert 7667 (cropped).jpg, Portrait of Cornelia Bouwers

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