Gerard Seghers

Portrait of Gerard Seghers engraved by Paulus Pontius after Anthony van Dyck

Gerard Seghers[1][2][3] (17 March, 1591 – 18 March, 1651) was a Flemish painter, art collector, and art dealer. After a period of study and residence in Italy, he returned to Flanders where he became one of the leading representatives of the Flemish Caravaggisti movement. In his later career he abandoned the Caravaggist style and genre motifs to become an important painter of large altarpieces for local churches.[4]

  1. ^ Alternative spellings of last name: 'Zegers' and 'Zeghers', first name also 'Geerard' and 'Gerardo'
  2. ^ Gerard Seghers at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  3. ^ Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool, Antwerpen, 1883, pp. 879–884 (in Dutch)
  4. ^ Matthias Depoorter, Gerard Seghers Archived 11 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine at Baroque in the Southern Netherlands

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