Coenraet Roepel

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Coenraet Roepel (Richard van Bleeck and Coenraet Roepel)

Coenraet Roepel (1678–1748) was an 18th-century fruit and flower still life painter from the Dutch Republic.

Biography

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Fruit still life in a niche

He was born in The Hague. According to Jan van Gool he was an avid gardener and his love of flowers made him become a pupil of Constantijn Netscher so that he could paint the flowers and other plants in his garden.[1] He travelled to Düsseldorf in 1716 and received a gold chain and medal from Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine for his work.[1] He had high hopes of painting more for the elector, but his patron died the same year, so Coenraet returned to the Netherlands.[1] On his return, he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1718 and was very successful in The Hague, receiving as much as 1,000 guilders for a work, but was later eclipsed by the flower painter Jan van Huysum.[1]

According to the RKD he was trained in the Confrerie in 1698–1699 and first became a member there in 1711.[2] His pupil was Pieter Terwesten.[2] He died in 1748 in The Hague.

The Lazaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid owns a couple of Still lifes, one with fruits and the other a Vase with Flowers,[3] from Roepel.


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Still life with fruits. Lazaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid.


References

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  1. ^ a b c d (in Dutch) Koenraet Roepel, Part 1, page 426 in Nieuwe Schouburg (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the Institute of Dutch History
  2. ^ a b Coenraet Roepel in the RKD
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