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Joos van Craesbeeck
Flemish painter and baker (c. 1605/06 – c.
Joos van craesbeeck biography definition
1660)
Joos van Craesbeeck[1] (c. 1605/06 – c. 1660) was a Flemish baker and a painter who played an important role in the development of Flemish genre painting in the mid-17th century through his tavern scenes and dissolute portraits.
His genre scenes depict low-life figures as well as scenes of middle-class people.[2] He created a few religiously themed compositions.[3]
Life
Joos van Craesbeeck was born in Neerlinter (now a village in Flemish Brabant, Belgium).
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His father was also called Joos and is believed to have been a baker. His mother's name was Gertruid van Callenborch. In 1630 or 1631 Joos van Craesbeeck married Johanna Tielens. His wife's father was a baker but her family also counted artists among its members: the landscape painter Jan Tielens was her uncle while two of her uncles on her mother's side were the sculptors Melchior and Caspar Grison.[4]
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