Antoon Claeissens
Anthuenis, or Antoon Claeissens, Claessens, or Claeissins (c.1536 – 1613) was the son of Pieter Claes the elder and painted historical and allegorical subjects, and portraits.
He was a native of Bruges and became a pupil of Pieter Pourbus.[1] He entered the Bruges Guild of Saint Luke in 1575, and became its dean in 1586, 1590, and 1601. His works, several of which are in the Hôtel-de-Ville and churches of Bruges, are distinguished by their fine colouring and finish. In the H6tel-de-Ville is a 'Grand Banquet' with many portraits of magistrates of the time, dated 1574. He died in 1613.
His son, Pieter Anthonie, was dean of the Guild of St. Luke at Bruges in 1607, and died in 1608.
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Bruges City hall
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Antoon Claeissens - The Judgement of Solomon - WGA04956.jpg
The Judgment of Solomon was probably painted for the City Hall's Vierschaar
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Antoon Claeissens - Mars Vanquishing Ignorance - WGA04955.jpg
Now in the Groeningemuseum, this painting of Mars Vanquishing Ignorance was also probably made for the Town Hall
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Antoon Claeissens - Banquet - WGA04954.jpg
Banquet of the council members of the Town Hall, painted for the Town Hall in 1574
References
- ↑ Antonius Claeissens in the RKD
This article incorporates text from the article "CLAES, Anthonie" 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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