Karel Slabbaert (1618 – 1654 in
Zierikzee; † before November 6, 1654, in
Leiden) was a Dutch painter and draftsman. The artist worked in Middelburg between 1634 and 1654 . His work includes portraits, genre scenes and still lives. He was a
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
painter who died at an young age.
Slabbaert was born in
Zierikzee in the year 1618. His earliest dated work is recorded as 1641 and he got engaged to Cornelia Bouwers of Rotterdam on 8th April 1645.
[Slabbaert in the RKD] His works show familiarity with
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...
's studio and he was in Amsterdam in 1645 while being a member of the
painter's guild in
Middelburg the same year. He became the Dean of the Middelburg Guild in 1653, and he died in the same place a year later.
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Life
Little is known about the artist's life and only a small number of his works - mostly genre scenes - have survived. Slabbaert was born around 1619 in Zierikzee in the Dutch province of Zeeland . He married in Amsterdam in 1645 and settled in Middelburg. Here he headed the Guild of St. Luke
The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Four Evangelists, Evangelist Saint Luke, Luke, the patron sa ...
in 1653. The painter Abraham Borm († 1668) was one of his students. In his group portrait with soldiers (Mauritshuis Den Haag), he depicted himself in the foreground. A ''portrait of a painter'' (Städel
The Städel, officially the ''Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie'', is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 ...
, Frankfurt am Main) a self-portrait of the artist. Karel Slabbaert died in Leiden in 1654 and was buried in Middelburg on November 6 of that year.
File:Karel Slabbaert - A toebackje still life.jpg, ''Toebackje'' still life, 1641
File:Karel Slabbaert - Portrait of Cornelia Bouwers, the artist’s wife 75 slabbaert 7667 (cropped).jpg, Portrait of Cornelia Bouwers
References
72964
RKD record for Karel Slabbaert
1618 births
1654 deaths
People from Zierikzee
Dutch Golden Age painters
Painters from Middelburg
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