Coenraet Roepel (1678, The Hague – 1748, The Hague), was an 18th-century fruit and flower still life painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to Jan van Gool he was an avid gardener and his love of flowers made him become a pupil of

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so that he could paint the flowers and other plants in his garden.Koenraet Roepel, Part 1, page 426
in ''Nieuwe Schouburg'' (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the ''Institute of Dutch History'' He travelled to Düsseldorf in 1716 and received a gold chain and medal from

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for his work. He had high hopes of painting more for the elector, but his patron died the same year, so Coenraet returned to the Netherlands. On his return, he became a member of the

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in 1718 and was very successful in The Hague, receiving as much as 1,000 guilders for a work, but was later eclipsed by the flower painter

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. According to the RKD he was trained in the Confrerie in the years 1698-1699 and first became a member there in 1711.Coenraet Roepel
in the RKD His pupil was

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. The Lazaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid owns a couple of Still lifes'', one with fruits'' and the other a ''Vase with Flowers'', from Roepel.
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