All Gerard Seghers 's Paintings
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Choice ID Image  Paintings (From A to Z)       Details 
92940 Christ and the repentant sinners  Christ and the repentant sinners   between 1603(1603) and 1651(1651) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 207 X 253 cm (81.5 X 99.6 in) cjr
91423 Philip IV. of Spain and his brother Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria  Philip IV. of Spain and his brother Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria   1635(1635) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 145.5 x 182.5 cm (57.3 x 71.9 in) cjr
90158 Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian  Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian   17th century. Medium oil on canvas. cyf
85985 Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian.  Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian.   Date 17th century. Medium Oil on canvas. cjr

Gerard Seghers
(Antwerp, 1591-18 March 1651), also Zegers, was a Flemish Baroque painter and one of the leading Caravaggisti in the Southern Netherlands. He was the son of an innkeeper but not related to the jesuit and painter Daniel Seghers. He was possibly a student of either Abraham Janssens or Hendrick van Balen, and he showed great talent, because in 1608 aged only 17 he is listed as a master in the Guild of St. Luke. It was during his trip to Italy around 1613 that he came under the influence of Caravaggio's followers. Bartolomeo Manfredi, in particular, was influential. Many other Dutch and Flemish painters were working in the style there, such as Gerard Honthorst, which is strongly characterized half-length figures illuminated by strong lighting and dramatic chiaroscuro. One work from this period is his Judith with the Head of Holofernes in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome. Caravaggism, both in history and monumental genre paintings, continued to mark Seghers's works when he returned to Antwerp around 1620. The Patient Job, National Gallery, Prague.He married on his return to Antwerp (ca.1621) with Catharina Wouters (d.1656), with whom he had eleven children. His son Jan-Baptist Seghers (1624-1670) also became a painter. After 1630, his palette lightens up considerably and the influence of Peter Paul Rubens is noticeable in paintings like the Adoration of the Magi (1630) in the Church of Our Lady, Bruges.

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