Adriaen Rombouts - Peasants smoking and drinking with children making music and an old woman in an interior

Adriaen Rombouts (c. 1640 – in or after 1670) was a Flemish genre painter active in

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in the middle of the 17th century. He is known for his indoor scenes with peasants engaging in play, eating and drinking.Adriaen Rombouts
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Life

Very little is known about the life of Rombouts. He was likely born sometime around 1640. He became in 1653–1654 a pupil of

Joos van Craesbeeck Joos van Craesbeeck (''c''. 1605/06 – ''c''. 1660) was a Flemish baker and a painter who played an important role in the development of Flemish genre art, genre painting in the mid-17th century through his tavern scenes and dissolute portraits. ...

in Brussels.Adriaen Rombouts, Bauern bei der Mahlzeit
at Lempertz Van Craesbeeck was a prominent genre painter who had trained with

Adriaen Brouwer Adriaen Brouwer (, in Oudenaarde – January 1638, in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.

and had moved from Antwerp to Brussels around 1650. The last known dated work of Rombouts is dated 1670. It is not known when or where the artist died.

Work

Adriaen Rombouts - Peasants drinking and playing cards in a tavern

Adriaen Rombouts painted scenes with peasants engaging in play, eating and drinking at home or in taverns. He also painted a portrait of the fool of a Brussels chamber of rhetoric. Some paintings attributed to him are now attributed to other artists. This includes ''A doctor performing a back operation, watched by country folk'' (

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), which is now attributed to the anonymous Antwerp artist referred to as the Monogrammist H.C.attributed to Monogrammist H.C. (Zuidelijke Nederlanden), ''A doctor performing a back operation'', watched by country folk, ca. 1660 London, The Wellcome Trust, inv./cat.nr. 500931i
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rombouts, Adriaen Flemish Baroque painters Flemish genre painters Flemish portrait painters Painters from Brussels Artists from Brussels Year of birth uncertain