The Bentvueghels (Dutch for "Birds of a Feather") were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also...
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Augustinus Terwesten (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
years. In Rome he became a member of the painters' circle known as the Bentvueghels, where he earned the nickname "Patrysvogel", or partridge, after the...
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Paulus Bor (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
artist, representative of the "Golden Age", member of the art society "Bentvueghels". Bor, who was born and died in Amersfoort, was descended from a notable...
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Jan van Bijlert (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
Dutch and Flemish artists in Rome known as the Bentvueghels. It was the custom among the Bentvueghels to adopt a nickname. Van Bijlert's nickname was...
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Simon Ardé (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
the Bentvueghels, which was set up as a social club of principally Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. The nickname he took in the Bentvueghels was...
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mainly Flemish and Dutch painters called the 'Bentvueghels' (shortened as the 'bent'). The Bentvueghels admitted new members in a ceremony in which they...
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Jan Frans van Bloemen (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
Spain Elizabeth Farnese, the Roman nobility and the Pope. He joined the Bentvueghels, the association of Dutch and Flemish artists in Rome, where he took...
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Jacob de Heusch (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
after his return. According to Houbraken, he became a member of the Bentvueghels and made trips to Venice and other cities with friends, painting in the...
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Leonaert Bramer (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
Marseille, Genoa, and Livorno. In Rome he was one of the founders of the Bentvueghels group of Northern artists, and was nicknamed "Nestelghat" (Fidget). He...
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their Flemish contemporaries, as can be seen from the membership of the Bentvueghels club in Rome. In the early part of the century many Northern Mannerist...
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loose organisation of Flemish and Dutch painters in Rome known as the Bentvueghels (Dutch for 'birds of a feather'). Van Laer was given the nickname "Il...
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festival held by the Amsterdam Guild of Saint Luke, a celebration of the Bentvueghels, or a meeting of the Chamber of Rhetoric. The painting is by the mid-17th-century...
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Jacques Blondeau (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
became a member of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. His nickname in the Bentvueghels was Weyman, meaning...
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travelled to Rome and received the nickname Pollepel (spoon) from the Bentvueghels, for his ability to spoon up figures on canvas. The widow of the lawyer...
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the Academy of St. Luke. Many of the painters were also members of the Bentvueghels, the society of mainly Flemish and Dutch artists working in Rome. It...
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Willem van Aelst (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
conjectured that Van Aelst visited Rome where he became a member of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome. This...
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Jan Boeckhorst (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
Dutch and Flemish artists in Rome known as the Bentvueghels. It was the custom among the Bentvueghels to adopt a nickname. Boeckhorst's nickname was possibly...
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Johann Wilhelm Baur (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
Škréta (Carolus Creten) while he was in Rome. Creten was a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname Slach-sweerd. The RKD has assigned this nickname Slagzwaard...
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Gaspar de Witte (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
and joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was the custom in the Bentvueghels to initiate new...
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Cornelis van Rijssen (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
became a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname Satyr. He is known for his poems about various members of the Bentvueghels group, most notably Daniel...
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and then in Rome where they came into contact with the members of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome....
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Philipp Peter Roos (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
brown tone. In 1691, he moved back to Rome, where he was one of the Bentvueghels painters in the Schildersbent, a grouping of painters from the Low Countries...
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Willem Gabron (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
member of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing...
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but who emigrated to Rome at a young age and became a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname Tempeest. He was thought to be a man of 50 by Isaac...
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Gerard van Kuijl (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
preparation for the trip. He joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname Stijgbeugel. In Italy he was a pupil of fellow Bentvueghel Jean Ducamps, with whom he lived...
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Reinier van Persijn (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
probably knew from his time in Rome, where they were both members of the Bentvueghels. His bent or nickname was Narcissus (Daffodil). He settled in 1645 in...
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Jan Fyt (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
he joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing...
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Jan van Bunnik (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
to Genoa, where he had lessons from Pieter de Molijn, a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname Tempeest. From there he travelled to Livorno where...
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Carel de Vogelaer (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
the records of the Bentvueghels, the society of mainly Flemish and Dutch artists working in Rome. When he joined the Bentvueghels he took the nickname...
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of the artists associated with the Bamboccianti were members of the Bentvueghels (Dutch for 'birds of a feather'), an informal association of mainly Dutch...
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