Paulus Moreelse (1571 – 6 March 1638) was a Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.

Life

Moreelse was born and lived most of his life in

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. He was a pupil of the

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portrait painter

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt Michiel Janszoon ( Jansz.) van Mierevelt (; also spelled Miereveld or Miereveldt; 1 May 1566 – 27 June 1641) was a Dutch painter and draftsman of the Dutch Golden Age. Biography Van Mierevelt was born and died in Delft, as a son of a goldsm ...

, who had himself been a pupil of Anthonie van Blocklandt. He took a study-trip to

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, where he received many portrait commissions. Back in Utrecht, in 1596 he became a member of the '' zadelaarsgilde'' (Saddler's guild), which then embraced the painters as well. In 1611, along with

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, he was one of the founders of a new painters' guild, called "St. Lucas-gilde", and became its first ''deken''.57653
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), artist record. Moreelse was a well known portrait painter who received commissions from right across the

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. His earliest known work dates to 1606. Other than portraits, he also painted a few

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s in the

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style and in the 1620s produced

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scenes of herders and shepherds. He belonged to the same generation as

and Joachim Wtewael, and like Wtewael he played an important role in the public life of their city. His version of Diana and Callisto was engraved by Jan Saenredam.

Het Gulden Cabinet or ''The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting'' is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and ''Chamber of rhetoric, rederijker'' Cornelis de Bie. It was published in Antwerp. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist ...

p 499 In 1618, when the anti-remonstrants came to power in Utrecht, he was expelled from the council (''raadslid''). Moreelse was also active as an

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, building Utrecht's Catharijnepoort (1626, demolished c.1850) and possibly also the Vleeshuis (still extant) on Voorstraat from 1637. He taught at Utrecht's ''tekenacademie'', and among his many pupils was

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. On his death, he was buried in the Buurkerk in Utrecht.

Public collections

Among the public collections holding works by Paulus Moreelse are: *

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, Amsterdam

Works

Maria van Utrecht by Paulus Moreelse - 1615.jpg, ''Portrait of

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'', 1615
(

, Amsterdam). Paulus Moreelse - Venus and Cupid - WGA16210.jpg, Venus and Cupid, 1617 ( Hermitage, St Petersburg). Portret van een man, vermoedelijk uit het geslacht Pauw Rijksmuseum SK-C-1440.jpeg, ''Portrait of a man'', 1625 (

, Amsterdam). Johanna Martens (Moreelse).jpg, ''Johanna Martens'', 1625
(

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, Madrid). Moreelse, Paulus - Girl with a Mirror, an Allegory of Profane Love - 1627.jpg, ''Girl with a Mirror - Allegory of Profane Love'', 1627
(

Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities University museum, museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard ...

, Cambridge). Vertumnus and Pomona 1630 Paulus Moreelse.jpg, ''

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and Pomona'', 1630 (

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...

, Rotterdam). Een herderin Rijksmuseum SK-A-276.jpeg, ''A Shepherdess'', 1630 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). Girl at a mirror, by Paulus Moreelse.jpg, Girl at a mirror, 1632 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). Moreelse, Paulus - Mythological Portrait - 1633.jpg, ''Mythological portrait'', 1633 ( Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Paulus Moreelse - Portrait of a Young Lady.jpg, ''Portrait of a Young Lady'', 1620 (

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)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moreelse 1571 births 1638 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch architects Painters from Utrecht (city) Dutch portrait painters

Life

Public collections

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