Gabriël van der Hofstadt (1620,

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

– 1690,

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), was a Flemish Baroque painter of religious works.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was born in Brussels and became a portrait painter.Gerrit van Hoochstadt 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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He later took to painting historical allegories, specializing in passion pieces and martyr works, of which many can still be seen in altarpieces in Brabant. According to the RKD he claimed to be 24 years old in 1645.Gabriël van der Hofstadt
in the RKD No known works survive. Cornelis de Bie called him "Gerrit van Hoochstad" in his book of painter biographies called

Het Gulden Cabinet ''Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const'' or ''The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting'' is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and ''Chamber of rhetoric, rederijker'' Cornelis de Bie published in Antwerp. Writte ...

. He claimed that he was a highly regarded painter who was good at portraiture, but became more interested in the mystery of the passion and painted many holy saints and altarpieces that could be seen in the churches of Brussels and its surrounding towns.Het Gulden Cabinet, p 413 Houbraken used De Bie as his source, and spelled the name "Gerrit van Hoochstadt".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hofstadt, Gabriel Van Der 1620 births 1690 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Painters from Brussels