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Sebastiaen Vrancx
Flemish, 1573–1647
Sebastiaen Vrancx was a Flemish Flemish Baroque painting painter. 35 works are cataloged here, principally at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, most of them oil paintings. Sebastiaen Vrancx was born in Antwerp.
Sebastiaen Vrancx (pronounced; before 22 January 1573 – 19 May 1647) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and designer of prints who is mainly known for his battle scenes, a genre that he pioneered in Netherlandish painting. He also created landscapes with mythological and allegorical scenes, scenes with robbers, village scenes and celebrations in cities. He was a gifted figure painter who was regularly invited to paint the staffage in compositions of fellow painters.
As an active member of a local chamber of rhetoric, he wrote comedies and a number of poems. He was further captain of the Antwerp schutterij (civic guard).
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