All SWEERTS, Michiel 's Paintings
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Choice ID Image  Paintings (From A to Z)       Details 
9195 Self-Portrait rt2  Self-Portrait rt2   1658-1661 Oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
9194 The Drawing Class ear  The Drawing Class ear   1656-58 Oil on canvas, 76,5 x 110 cm Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem
9196 Young Man and the Procuress r  Young Man and the Procuress r   c. 1660 Oil on copper, 19 x 27 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris

SWEERTS, Michiel
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, ca.1618-1664 Flemish painter, active in Italy, Syria and India. He arrived in Rome in the mid-1640s, perhaps in circumstances similar to those depicted in his painting The Landing (Paris, Louvre). In 1646 he was registered as living in the Via Margutta in the parish of S Maria del Popolo, where documents indicate that he continued to reside until 1651, together with other Flemish Catholics like himself. In 1647 he attended a meeting of the Accademia di S Luca, not as an academician but simply as an associate. The following year he was visited by the Dutch poet Matthijs van de Merwede (1625-?1677), who later recalled the extremely poor welcome he received from the artist. On 1 June 1651 Sweerts was employed by the Antwerp merchant Jan Deutz to represent him at the Papal Customs to collect seven pieces of woollen cloth from Leiden. Sweerts's relationship with the Deutz family was always close: he painted portraits of Jeronimus Deutz (Amsterdam, Rijksmus.) and Balthasar Deutz and a series of the Seven Acts of Mercy for the family; some scholars have identified this series with the cycle of paintings divided between the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, and two private collections

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