The Sentry of Carel Fabritius Painting

by Paul Meijering

Original - Not For Sale

Price

$2,000

Dimensions

90.000 x 90.000 x 1.000 cm.

Title

The Sentry of Carel Fabritius Painting

Artist

Paul Meijering

Medium

Painting - Acrylic Painting On Panel

Description

Realistic acrylic portrait painting of Carel Fabritius in front of one af his masterpieces "De Schildwacht", painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 90 cm and for sale.

Carel Pietersz. Fabritius; bapt. 27 February 1622 – 12 October 1654) was a Dutch painter. He was a pupil of Rembrandt and worked in his studio in Amsterdam. Fabritius, who was a member of the Delft School, developed his own artistic style and experimented with perspective and lighting. Among his works are A View of Delft (1652; National Gallery, London), The Goldfinch (1654), and The Sentry (1654).
Carel Pietersz. Fabritius was born in February 1622 in Middenbeemster, a village in the ten-year-old Beemster polder in the Dutch Republic, and was baptized on 27 February of that year. He was the son of Pieter Carelsz., a painter and schoolteacher,[citation needed] and he had two younger brothers, Barent and Johannes, who also became painters.

Initially he worked as a carpenter. In the early 1640s he studied at Rembrandt's studio in Amsterdam, along with his brother Barent. In the early 1650s he moved to Delft, and joined the Delft painters' guild in 1652.

Fabritius died young, caught in the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine on 12 October 1654, which destroyed a quarter of the city, along with his studio and many of his paintings. Only about a dozen paintings have survived. According to Houbraken, his student Mattias Spoors and the church deacon Simon Decker died with him, since they were working on a painting together at the time.

In a poem written by Arnold Bon to his memory, he is called Karel Faber.

The Sentry is a 1654 painting of a resting sentry and a dog by Carel Fabritius. It is an oil painting on canvas of 68 by 58 cm (27 by 23 in). The work is in the collection of the Staatliches Museum in Schwerin and was restored in 2004

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June 3rd, 2021

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