Bernhard Keil or Keyl (1624 – 3 February 1687) was a Danish Baroque painter who became a pupil of Rembrandt.

Biography

Keil was born in

Helsingør Helsingør ( , ; sv, Helsingör), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 62,686 on 1 January 2018. Helsingør and Helsingborg in Sweden together form the northe ...

. According to the RKD he was a pupil of the Danish painter

Morten Steenwinkel Morten Steenwinkel (1595, Varberg – 1646, Copenhagen), was a Danish architect and painter. Biography According to Houbraken he was a good animal painter specialized in horses.Bernhard Keil
in the

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In 1645-1648 he was with Hendrick Uylenburgh and he had a workshop of his own in the years 1649–1651. In 1656 he travelled to Rome, and is registered there until 1687, when he died. He also worked in Bergamo and Venice. He was influenced by

Jan Lievens Jan Lievens (24 October 1607 – 4 June 1674) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was associated with his close contemporary Rembrandt, a year older, in the early parts of their careers. They shared a birthplace in Leiden, training with Pieter La ...

and in turn influenced the painters Pietro Bellotti (1627-1700), Antonio Cifrondi, and Giacomo Francesco Cipper.

References

Bernhard Keil
on Artnet 1624 births 1687 deaths 17th-century Danish painters Danish Baroque painters Danish male painters People from Helsingør Pupils of Rembrandt {{Denmark-painter-stub