Albertus Clouwet (name variations: Albertus Clouet, Albert Clowet, Aubert Clouwet, Haubertus Clouwet, Albertus Cluet, nickname Zandzak) (1636,
Antwerp
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Naples
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), was a Flemish engraver who had a successful career in Italy.
Biography
He travelled to Rome and joined the
bentvueghels
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 known as the Schildersbent ("painters' clique").
Activities
The members, which included ...
with the bentname ''Zandzak''.
[Albertus Clouwet in Abraham Genoels Biography]
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
He arrived there in the company of the painter
Abraham Genoels
Abraham Genoels II or Abraham Genouil (nickname: Archimedes) (25 May 1640, Antwerp – 10 May 1723, Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman, engraver and tapestry designer. He is now mainly known for his landscape paintings, drawings ...
, whose party he joined en route southwards from Antwerp.
[
He was possibly the cousin of Peeter or Petrus Clouwet.][Albertus Clouwet]
in the RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
He was a pupil of Cornelis Bloemaert
Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603 – 28 September 1692), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
Biography
Bloemaert was born at Utrecht. He studied with his father, Abraham Bloemaert, his brothers Hendrick and Adriaan, and his father's pupi ...
in Rome and worked with him in Florence.[ Back in Rome in 1663 he married the German lady Lucia Fosman there.][ He is known as a portrait engraver.][
]
References
1636 births
1679 deaths
17th-century engravers
Flemish engravers
Artists from Antwerp
Members of the Bentvueghels
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