ADRIAEN BROUWER (attr. A)
(Oudenaarde, 1605 - Antwerp, 1638)
Scene of a tavern
Oil on panel, 17X15 cm
Adriaen Brouwer was born in Oudenaarde at the beginning of the 17th century and moved at a young age to Haarlem where he became a pupil of Frans Hals (1581/85 - 1666) together with Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). In 1626 he was enrolled in the school of rhetoric and five years later he was registered in the guild of painters in Antwerp, immediately showing himself to be a figure of extraordinary talent. He also exerted a strong influence on his contemporaries, first and foremost on David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), whose peasant scenes are unimaginable without his influence, and on followers such as David Rijckaert (1612-1661) and Joos van Craesbeeck (1605/06-1660), with whom his works are often confused.
