Jan van der Brugge
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Jan van der Bruggen was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver.
, who could draw a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the Pharaoh entering the red sea in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper. His student François Boitard
could repeat this trick, but not quite as well and demonstrated this to Houbraken in London in 1709.
Van der Brugge's engraved portrait dated 1689 with a poem at the bottom declaring his admiration for Lafage was written (in part) by Jean de La Fontaine
. It was made to go with a set of prints in memory of Lafage that Van der Brugge produced that year, that he sold from his house in Paris.
According to the RKD he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1679, but he moved later to Paris, where he produced a set of engravings. He is noted as a genre painter, but no works are known today.
Biography
According to Houbraken he was a great admirer of Raymond LafageRaymond Lafage
Raymond Lafage was a Baroque French artist, notable for his mythological prints and drawings.-Biography:...
, who could draw a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the Pharaoh entering the red sea in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper. His student François Boitard
François Boitard
François Boitard , was a French Baroque artist.-Biography:According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Raymond Lafage who later followed his style of making drawings and prints...
could repeat this trick, but not quite as well and demonstrated this to Houbraken in London in 1709.
Van der Brugge's engraved portrait dated 1689 with a poem at the bottom declaring his admiration for Lafage was written (in part) by Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional...
. It was made to go with a set of prints in memory of Lafage that Van der Brugge produced that year, that he sold from his house in Paris.
According to the RKD he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1679, but he moved later to Paris, where he produced a set of engravings. He is noted as a genre painter, but no works are known today.