Jan Geeraerts
Born
Jan Geeraerts

(1814-05-15)15 May 1814
Antwerp, Provisional Government of Belgium
Died9 January 1890(1890-01-09) (aged 75)
Antwerp, Belgium
EducationAcademy of Antwerp
OccupationPainter
Hall of Estates at the Antwerp City Hall

Jan Geeraerts (15 May 1814 – Antwerp) was a Belgian painter. He is known for his realist interiors of churches and other ancient buildings. He also painted genre scenes and religious subjects.[1]

Life

Jan Geeraerts was born in Antwerp on 15 May 1814. He became a student at the Academy of Antwerp where he studied, amongst others, under the genre painter Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans[2] He participated in the Salons in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent.[1]

The Ruins of the Trading Exchange in Antwerp

Geeraerts lived at 118 Lange Leemstraat in Antwerp. He died in Antwerp on 9 January 1890.[1]

Works

Geeraerts painted mainly interiors of churches and picturesque old buildings. He also painted genre scenes and religious subjects. The church interior was a genre practiced in Northern European painting since the 16th century. In the 19th century a few Belgian artists were also specialised in this genre including artists such as: Bernard Neyt, Jules-Victor Genisson, Joseph-Chrétien Nicolié, André-Joseph Minguet and Joseph Maswiens.

Geeraerts' church interiors generally depict Antwerp churches such as in the Interior of the St. Paul's church in Antwerp (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp). He also painting of the interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with a view of the mausoleum of William the Silent.[1] He also painted in 1873 in frightening detail the ruins of the Antwerp stock exchange which had burned down 15 years earlier.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dictionnaire des peintres belges du XIV° siècle à nos jours, Brussels, 1994
  2. ↑ Guillaume Beetemé, Antwerpen: moederstad van handel en kunst, 1893, p. 279
  3. ↑ Jan Geeraerts, The Ruins of the Trading Exchange in Antwerp, Van Ham Cologne auction 19 November 2020 lot 1164
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