Reyer van Blommendael
A Young Woman in Arcadian Costume
Shepherd and Sleeping Shepherdess
Reyer Jacobsz van Blommendael (27 June 1628 (baptised) – 23 November 1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Haarlem.
Biography
He entered the Guild of that city in 1662, and was buried in the St. Bavochurch there where later his sister Risje (who had previously named him in her will) was also buried.[1] His sister's will from 1669 stated that he was living in Amsterdam, and her newer will from 1675 mentions him living in the Hague.
His works were attributed by Johannes Vermeer, Dirck van Baburen, Cesar van Everdingen, Abraham Bloemaert, Jan van Bronchorst and Gerard van Honthorst.
Works
Paris and Oenone, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Lot and His Sons, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque, attributed
Xantippe Dousing Socrates (c. 1655), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, attributed
Saint Bavo Saves Haarlem (1673), St. Bavochurch, Harlem
Notes
Reyer Jacobsz van Blommendael in the RKD
References
This article incorporates text from the article "BLOMMENDAAL, Reyer Jacobsz" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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