In the history of art, Adriaen van Stalbemt is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Adriaen van Stalbemt as Flemish Baroque painter (1580-1662).
Adriaen van Stalbemt was born at Antwerp in 1580. His recorded nationality is Habsburg Netherlands.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, printmaker and draftsperson.
His best-known work is Mountainous landscape. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Habsburg Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Adriaen van Stalbemt died in 1662, aged 82. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Mountainous landscape
