Joost cornelisz droochsloot biography definition
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In short
Droochsloot, who possibly studied painting in Antwerp, worked almost exclusively in his native Utrecht.
Droochsloot painted several representations of Spanish soldiers plundering Dutch villages and farms and attacking travellers. All the other versions are much larger than ours. The Dutch war of independence, the so-called Eighty Years’ War, ended in 1648, when Spain finally accepted the creation of an independent Dutch Republic.
About Joost-Cornelisz. Droochsloot
Dutch painter
Utrecht 1586 – 1666 Utrecht
Painter of genre scenes, usually with peasants, village and town views and landscapes (including some winter landscapes) and a few religious and allegorical subjects (mostly at the start of his career).
It is not known whom our painter studied under. Seeing the Flemish character of his oeuvre some scholars think he might have studied in Flanders, in Antwerp.
Droochsloot remained in Utrecht his whole life, except for a period at the start of his career: his earliest painting, dated 1615, was made at The Hague, but from 1616 onwards he was back in Utrecht. That year was his first inscription as a member of his birthplace Painter’s Guild of Saint Luke. He was Dean in 1623, 1641 and
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