Artist
Adam Frans van der Meulen
Habsburg Netherlands, 1632–1690
Adam Frans van der Meulen was a Habsburg Netherlands Flemish Baroque painting painter. 26 works are cataloged here, principally at Palace of Versailles, most of them oil paintings. Adam Frans van der Meulen was born in Brussels.
Adam Frans van der Meulen or Adam-François van der Meulen (11 January 1632 – 15 October 1690) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who was particularly known for his scenes of military campaigns and conquests. Van der Meulen also painted portraits, hunting scenes, paintings of chateaux and landscapes. He created designs for prints and cartoons for tapestries.
He worked in the service of the French king Louis XIV for whom he painted his victories, his new possessions and portraits. He was instrumental in building the propagandistic image of the French king as the 'Sun King'. His battle scenes had an important influence on the development on the genre of military painting in France.
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