Jacobus vrel biography

Jacobus VREL
working, probably in Delft, –

Of all the minor Dutch painters of the seventeenth century Vrel is one of the most enigmatic The location of his activity can only be surmised through searching far the possible sources of his style, and there is a general.

Jacobus vrel biography

agreement that this was probably Delft, although there is no record of him in the town. His few dated pictures range from to

Vrel concentrated on two distinctly different types of painting. Half of his pictures -depict rather bare interiors painted in the manner of Pieter Janssens or Pieter de Hooch.

He liked to paint bare walls in a manner reminiscent of Vermeer. The other half of his work consists of street scenes where the houses tend to be seen frontally, as in Vermeer's Little Street in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Perhaps one day more information will come to light about this beautiful painter.

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