Balthasar van den Bossche
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Balthasar van den Bossche (1681–1715) was a late Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in histories, genre and picture gallery interiors. He worked in Antwerp, where he was director of the Art Academy, as well as in Paris, Nantes and Douai.[1] In the eighteenth century he was recognized as a "second-rate" but successful artist.[1] In addition to subjects such as alchemists, similar to the tradition of David Teniers the Younger, some of his paintings reflect a trend in Antwerp painting around 1700 that show artists—often historical masters from earlier in the century like Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck or Jacob Jordaens—in their studios, surrounded by paintings and sculptures, and teaching the craft to a young apprentice.[1] The masters of those latter works are often only hinted by the works of art pictured in the painting itself, however.[1]
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- Filipczak, Z. Z. (1987). Picturing art in Antwerp, 1550-1700. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691040478
