Bartram de Fouchier (February 14, 1609 – August 25, 1673) was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

painter.

Biography

Fouchier was born in

Bergen op Zoom Bergen op Zoom (; called ''Berrege'' in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands. Etymology The city was built on a place where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil p ...

. Houbraken remarked that his father was a Frenchman who had come to visit the Netherlands for the Siege of Calais in 1596 and stayed for the

Siege of Ostend The siege of Ostend was a three-year siege of the city of Ostend during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War. A Spanish force under Archduke Albrecht besieged the fortress being held initially by a Dutch force which was reinforc ...

(1601–1603). The fighting lasted so long that the elder Fouchier had time to fall in love with a young heiress from Bergen op Zoom and he settled there after the war.Bartram de Fouchier 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 ...

, courtesy of the

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When the young Bartram came of age, he wanted to learn painting, so his father sent him to Antwerp to study with

Anthony 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 ...

. He learned to paint a good portrait there, but since this was the period that Van Dyck had very little time for pupils, Fouchier left his workshop and travelled to Utrecht in 1634 to study with

Jan van Bijlert Jan Hermansz van Bijlert (1597 or 1598 – November 1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Utrecht, one of the Utrecht Caravaggisti whose style was influenced by Caravaggio. He spent some four years in Italy and was one of the founders of the ...

, where he stayed for two years. He first returned home to Bergen op Zoom, but then he left again to make a

Grand Tour The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tuto ...

to Italy, where in Rome he was accused of heresy together with his companion Jan van Isendoorn. They fled to Florence, where they stayed a short while before leaving for Paris, and shortly after that to Antwerp, where they parted company forever. Fouchier returned to Bergen op Zoom and at first tried to make a living at painting in the manner of

Tintoretto Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with ...

, but he had more success with genre pieces in the manner of

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.

. He was buried in the Grote Kerk of Bergen op Zoom. According to 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 trained by

and traveled to Italy with Jan van Isendoorn.Bartram de Fouchier in the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fouchier, Bartram De 1609 births 1673 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters People from Bergen op Zoom