Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont - Portrait of Peter Scheemakers

Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (1 February 1750, in

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– 3 June 1835, in Antwerp) was a

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, engraver and etch artist. He was also an art educator and administrator as he held positions as a professor and director of the

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in Antwerp.Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont
at the

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Life

De Quertenmont studied with the Antwerp engraver Philippus Keminckx while studying at the same time drawing at the

in Antwerp. He won the first prize for live model drawing at the Antwerp Academy in 1771. The same year he became master in the local

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. He subsequently became a professor at the Academy. He was appointed director of the Academy in 1778 and held that position until the Academy was closed down by the French occupiers in October 1794. He then opened his own drawing workshop which was very successful. He received in 1790 a membership diploma of the

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.André-Bernard de Quertenmont
at the

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Biographical details
in: Roeland Van Eijnden en Adriaan Van der Willigen, Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst, tweede deel III-IV, 1816–1840 De Quertenmont had numerous pupils, including

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and

Frans Balthazar Solvyns Frans Balthazar Solvyns or François Balt(h)azar(d)Birth name; Franciscus Balthazar Solvyns, also known as: Frans Balthazar Solvijns and Balthazar Solvijns States of Brabant The States of Brabant were the representation of the three estates (nobility, clergy and commons) to the court of the Duke of Brabant. The three estates were also called the States. Supported by the economic strength of the cities Antwerp, Bruss ...

. He had originally planned a series of 80 portraits. De Quertenmont commissioned different foreign engravers to engrave the series. Some of the preparatory drawings have been preserved and show de Quertenmont to be an excellent draughtsman who could make lively and expressive portraits. De Quertenmont was an accomplished copyist respected for his technique. It was to him that was entrusted the task of making a copy of the ''Madonna of the Rosary'' by

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

after

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claimed the original by Caravaggio, which was the property of the Dominicans in Antwerp, for his

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in 1786.Caravaggio en de St.Paulus
He painted a portrait of Gregorius Thiels abbot of Averbode. De Quertenmont produced a number of etchings including portraits after paintings by

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and

van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh c ...

as well as after his own drawings.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quertenmont, Andreas Bernardus de Flemish portrait painters Flemish engravers Belgian painters Artists from Antwerp 1750 births 1835 deaths