Barend van Someren (1572–1632) was a Flemish painter and printmaker who after training and working in Antwerp, worked a few years in Rome and finally took up residence in Amsterdam in the

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. He is reported to have painted

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and landscape paintings but no known paintings by him have been identified. He was also active as an art dealer, publisher and innkeeper.Barend van Someren
at the

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Life

Van Someren was born in

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. He was the brother of

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.Bernaert van Somer
in

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's ''

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'', 1604] He trained in his hometown with Filips Lisaert the Younger. He traveled to Rome in 1600 where he resided until 1602. In Rome he worked in the workshop of

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. He married Mijtens' daughter Dianora. He left Rome for Amsterdam in 1602. Van Someren operated an inn in Amsterdam. The Flemish painter

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stayed in this inn when he first arrived in the Dutch Republic in 1625.Matthias Depoorter, 'Adriaen Brouwer'
at Baroque in the Southern Netherlands His pupils were his son Hendrick, Daniël van den Bremden, and

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. Van Someren died in

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Work

No extant paintings by him are known. He is reported to have painted history and landscape paintings. A few prints by his hand are portraits of religious and historical figures such as the ''Judas Taddeüs''.Barend van Someren, ''Portret van Anthonie Schets, Baron van Grobbendonck''
at the Rijksmuseum

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Someren, Barend van 1572 births 1632 deaths Dutch male painters Dutch Golden Age painters Flemish publishers Flemish history painters Flemish landscape painters Flemish printmakers Artists from Antwerp