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Philip Fruytiers

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Baudouin, Frans,: 'Een Antwerps schilder uit Rubens' omgeving: Philip Fruytiers, de monogrammist PHF', Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone kunsten (1967), pp. 151–85 en Baudouin, Frans, 'Nog een toeschrijving aan Philip Fruytiers', Bulletin Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, 17,
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De Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, onder Zinkspreuk: "Wy Jonsten Versaemt" afgeschreven en bemerkt door Ph. Rombouts en Th. Van Lerius, Advokaet, onder de bescherming van den raed van bestuer der koninklyke Akademie van beeldende Kunsten, van gezegde
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signed and dated 1638 (Cambi auction in Genoa of 30 June 2020 lot 114) shows a family in an outdoor setting with an artist drawing in a sketchbook. This may be a self-portrait of Fruytiers. His most famous miniature depicts
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Between September 1630 and 18 October 1665 he was very active in the 'Sodaliteit van de Bejaerde Jongmans', a fraternity for bachelors established by the Jesuit order.
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Philip Fruytiers was until the middle of the 20th century mainly known as a miniature painter and portraitist who worked in watercolor and gouache. A portrait of a
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The accepted view of Philip Fruytiers as principally a miniaturist and watercolorist was based partially on the descriptions in the early biographical works by
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college in Antwerp in 1627. He contributed texts in Latin, French and Dutch to an emblem book published in 1627 by that college at the
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in the guild year 1631–32. He is described in the register of the Guild as an illuminator, painter and engraver.
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Typus mundi in quo ejus calamitates et pericula nec non divini, humanique amoris antipathia, emblematice proponuntur
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on 10 January 1610 as the son of Jan Fruytiers and Catherina Vervloet. He is listed as a pupil at the
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Fruytiers was an accomplished engraver and produced several portrait etchings such as those of the
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Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesu a Provincia Flandro-Belgica eiusdem Societatis repraesentata
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Imago primi sæcvli Societatis Iesv a provincia Flandro-Belgica eivsdem societatis representata
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No information about his artistic training is available. He became a master of the Antwerp
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and Conraad Lauwers. One of his outstanding designs of a frontispiece is that for the
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Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 24 September 2020
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at the Plantin Moretus press in Antwerp in 1640. The design which was engraved by
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Fruytiers' style is generally much closer to the refinement and delicacy of
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and group or family portraits such as that of the three children of Rubens.
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Innocentius de Caltagirone and the Flemish mathematician and astronomer
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portrait drawing of the Jesuit Jan de Tollenaere (Johannes Tollenarius)
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De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen
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Alternative spellings of his name: Philip Fruijtiers, Philip Fruitiers
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Although Cornelis de Bie mentioned that Fruytiers also painted
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He died in Antwerp on 19 June 1666 and was buried on 21 June.
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in: Cornelis de Bie, ‘'Het Gulden Cabinet'’, 1661, p. 389
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The four children of Rubens and Helena Fourment with maids
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Four children of Rubens and Helena Fourment with maids
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Flemish
Baroque
painter
engraver
gouache
Antwerp
Jesuit
Joannes Cnobbaert
Philips van Mallery
Guild of Saint Luke

Gualterus Gysaerts
Rubens
Helena Fourment
Royal Collection
Windsor Castle
David Teniers the Younger

Cornelis de Bie
Arnold Houbraken
altarpieces
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Zundert
North Brabant
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Museo del Prado
Madrid

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