Hieronymus van Orley
Hieronymus van Orley O.F.M. | |
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Born | 1590 Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands |
Education | apprenticed to Antonie Drua |
Style | Baroque |
Movement | Catholic Reformation |
Patron(s) | Maria de Taye |
Website | rkd.nl/explore/artists/60938 |
Hieronymus van Orley (active c. 1612) was a Franciscan painter in the Spanish Netherlands.
Van Orley was born in Brussels in 1590 and learnt the art of painting from Antonie Drua in Mechelen around 1612.[1]Maria de Taye, abbess of Forest Abbey outside Brussels, commissioned paintings from him for the abbey church.[2] A number of his portraits were engraved by Richard Collin and were reproduced in Jean François Foppens, Bibliotheca belgica (2 vols., Brussels, 1739).[3]
References
^ Orley, Hieronimus van, RKD, created 19 January 1992; updated 18 April 2016. Accessed 11 December 2016.
^ P. Leroy, "Domein van de abdij van Vorst", in Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis (State Archives in Belgium, Brussels, 1980), p. 207.
^ A. J. van der Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden, continued by K.J.R. van Harderwijk and G.D.J. Schotel, vol. 14 (Haarlem, 1867), 201-202.