Theodoor Boeyermans was a Flemish Baroque painter from Antwerp who painted classicizing

Classicism

Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint...

 works informed by the tradition of Peter Paul Rubens. In addition he made numerous altarpiece

Altarpiece

An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...

s for Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 churches, group portrait

Portrait

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s, and allegories. Boeyermans's work also shares a close affinity with his contemporary Gonzales Coques. He joined the guild of St. Luke in 1654, and was associated with the later foundation of the Antwerp Academy

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp is an art academy located in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, painter to the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and Don Juan of Austria...

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Works

• Antwerp, Nurse of Painters, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 1665
• The Envoy, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
• Saint Charles Borromeo Nursing the Plague Victims, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 1669
• Portrait of the Family de Bie, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
• The Visit, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
• The Vision of Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 1669
• Christ Healing the Sick People Lying near the Pool of Bethesda, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 1675