Johannes Gottlieb Glauber (1656,

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– 1703, Wroclaw), was a

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painter.

Biography

According to

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he was the son of the Amsterdam chemist

Johann Rudolph Glauber Johann Rudolf Glauber (10 March 1604 – 16 March 1670) was a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Some historians of science have described him as one of the first chemical engineers. His discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 led to the com ...

(1604–1670), after whose death he left home at 15 to travel with his brother Johannes Glauber and the two ''brothers Van Doren'' by boat to Paris in 1671, where they stayed together for a year.Jan Gotlief Glauber Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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, courtesy of the

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When his brother Johannes departed for Lyon, young Jan Gotlieb became a pupil of the Haarlem painter

Jacob Knijff Jacob Knijff (1 January 1639, Haarlem – 1681, London), also written Jacob Knyff, was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he was the teacher of Johannes Gottlieb Glauber in Paris in 1671, where he attended the fune ...

and stayed painting for him until Knijff left Paris on a commission, whereupon Jan Gotlieb joined his brother in Lyon. Together they then travelled to Italy with two French painters. After 6 months in Rome he joined the

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with the nickname ''Mirtillus''. After 2 years in Rome the brothers set off for Padua with the Flemish painter

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, where they stayed a year. After that they travelled to Venice, where they stayed two years, attending the funeral of their friend

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. They finally left Italy in 1679 and went north to

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, where they lived until 1684 when Jan Gotlieb went into the service of a German prince. From there he traveled to Vienna and from there to Wroclaw, where he died in 1703. According to the RKD Jan Gotlieb Glauber was born in Utrecht as the younger brother of the painter

Diana Glauber Diana Glauber (11 January 1650, Utrecht – c. 1721, Hamburg), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Born on 11 January 1650, Diana Glauber was a Dutch painter. According to Houbraken she was the daughter of the Amsterdam chemist Johann Rudo ...

, accompanied his brother on all his travels, but left Hamburg in 1685 for Vienna.Johannes Gottlieb Glauber
in the RKD

References

Painting by Johannes Gotlieb Glauber
in the RKD {{DEFAULTSORT:Glauber, Johannes Gottlieb 1656 births 1703 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Utrecht Members of the Bentvueghels