Marten Jozef Geeraerts (1707–1791) was a Flemish historical painter. Born at Antwerp, he was intended for the law, and studied in the Jesuits' College. Preferring art, however, he became a pupil of

Abraham Godijn Abraham Godijn or Abraham Godyn (alternative spellings of family name: Goddijn and Abraham Goddyn) (1655/56 – after 1724) was a Flemish painter who, after a stay in Italy, worked for a time as a court painter in Prague where he produced magnifice ...

, and was made free of the Guild of St. Luke in 1731. In 1741 he became one of the six directors of the Academy of Antwerp, who filled that office gratuitously. He died at Antwerp in 1791. He excelled in

grisaille Grisaille ( or ; french: grisaille, lit=greyed , from ''gris'' 'grey') is a painting executed entirely in shades of grey or of another neutral greyish colour. It is particularly used in large decorative schemes in imitation of sculpture. Many g ...

painting in imitation of

bas-reliefs Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ...

, of which there are the following examples: * Antwerp. Gallery. ''The Fine Arts''. 1760. * Brussels. Gallery. ''Christ and the Disciples at Bmmaus'', ''The Saviour at the House of Simon the Pharisee'', ''The Sons of Aaron punished by Fire from Heaven'', ''The Woman taken in Adultery'', ''Abraham and Melchisedeck'', ''The Sacrifice of Abraham'' and ''The Sacrifice of Eli'' * Hague. Museum. ''Autumn''. * Lille. Museum. ''Children with Goat''. * Vienna. Gallery. ''Cupid and Psyche''. Between 1756 and 1760 he produced nine grisaille tromp-l’œil paintings for the abbey church in Cambrai which later became the Cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

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* 1707 births 1791 deaths History painters Painters from Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) faculty 18th-century Flemish painters {{Flemish-painter-stub