Joost van Geel (1771) by Jacob Houbraken

Joost van Geel (1631,

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– 1698,

), was a

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genre painter in the style of

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Biography

According to Houbraken, he was never able to discover more about this painter than what he learned from a painting of a lady with a nanny and child, which he described thus: "A piece has come to my attention signed V. Geel, which shows a nanny with a child on her lap, and a mother standing at her side with a red "sulp" jacket edged in white fur quite cleverly wrapped around her, and a yellow satin skirt with natural folds, playing with the child, as if she wanted to tempt her from her nanny with a lump of sugar. I don't know if this artist was a pupil of Metzu, but the piece was so cleverly done in his manner that it could be taken for a work by his hand. I have not seen any other work by this artist and all those of whom I ask of him have never heard of him or his work, which leads me to believe that many brave souls are nipped in the bud from a lack of patronage.Joost van Geel 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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This piece today shows the "VGeel" signature with the "L" connected to a (forged) "Metsu" signature. According to the RKD he was a pupil of Metsu and worked in Leiden, Germany, France, London, and Rijnsburg before returning to Rotterdam sometime after 1666.Joost van Geel
in the

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Van Geel's painting of a lacemaker wearing a similar red "sulp" jacket was recently discovered and broadcast on the Dutch antiques television program " Tussen Kunst en Kitsch" in 2011 and valued at around 250,000 euro.Dutch Television show Tussen Kunst en Kitsch finds painting by Joost van Geel (1631-1698)
on Codart File:The lacemaker by Joost van Geel (1631-1698).jpg, Painting from the Antiques Roadshow File:Joost van Geel Dame met min en kind.jpg, Painting that Houbraken described

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