Theodoor Rombouts
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Genre painting
Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or...
scenes of card players and musicians.
Biography
He studied under Abraham JanssensAbraham Janssens
Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen was a Flemish Baroque painter.He was born at Antwerp, in a year variously reported between 1567 and 1576. He studied under Jan Snellinck, was a master in 1602, and in 1607 was dean of the master-painters...
in Antwerp and Nicolas Régnier
Nicolas Régnier
Nicolas Régnier , alternatively Niccolò Renieri in Italian, was a Flemish painter and art collector, active in Italy during the Baroque period....
. He traveled to Rome in 1616 and stayed there until 1625. When he got back he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke and married Anna van Thielen, the sister-in-law of Jan Philip van Thielen in 1627. From 1628-1630 he was deacon of the Guild in Antwerp. He painted many music scenes and parties at a table drinking. He was heavily influenced by Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
.
According to Houbraken, he was a hard worker and eager learner who visited Italy and other lands, becoming a highly respected master painter on his return.
His pupils were Jan Philips van Thielen
Jan Philips van Thielen
Jan Philips van Thielen was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in flowers.-Early life:Van Thielen was the son of a minor nobleman and eventually assumed the title of Lord of Couwenberch...
and Paulus Robyns.