Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
– 10 August 1626 in
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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), was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken, who repeated the information from Joachim von Sandrart's ''Teutsche Academie'', Willem Backereel was from a large painting family that always had a few brothers in Rome. Willem's brother
Gillis Backereel
Gillis Backereel (1572 - before 1662) was a Flemish painter of history subjects. The artist was principally active in Antwerp where he produced various compositions for the local churches.Guilian en Gilis Bakkereel 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
Digital library for Dutch literature
The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Dutch: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren or DBNL) is a website (showing the abbreviation as dbnl) about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts, second ...
According to the RKD he was in Italy from 1605 onwards and was taught painting by his older brother Gillis.Willem Backereel in the RKD His Roman sketches of the
Flavian Palace
The Flavian Palace, normally known as the Domus Flavia, is part of the vast Palace of Domitian on the Palatine Hill in Rome. It was completed in 92 AD by Emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus,''The Cambridge Ancient History''. Vol. XI. Cambridge: C ...
Jacob de Heusch
Jacob de Heusch (November 23, 1656 (bapt.) - May 8, 1701), was a Dutch painter. He was Willem de Heusch's nephew, signing like his uncle, substituting an initial J for the initial G (of ''Guglielmo'').
Life
De Heusch was born in Utrecht.
He l ...
.
References
Willem Backereel in the online edition of Sandrart's "Teutsche Academie"
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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 ...