A Pastoral Scene

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genre

Jan Thomas van Yperen was accepted as a master by the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1639-40. He is thought to have worked in the studio of Peter Paul Rubens before copying and amending paintings by Rubens in his house following the master's death in 1640. Van Yperen resettled in Vienna in around 1656/58, where he worked for Emperor Leopold I and Archduke Leopold William.

About the Artist

Jan Thomas Van Yperen

1617 – 1673

Flemish painter and engraver. He was born in Ypres, Flanders (hence his name 'van Yperen', which means 'from Ypres'). He was a follower of Peter Paul Rubens. He probably worked in his studio as he is documented as working on paintings in Rubens's house soon after his death in 1640. Thomas went to Vienna c. 1656, where he worked for Archduke Leopold William, Emperor Leopold I, and other patrons in the Habsburg territories for the remainder of his career. His works include large-scale religious compositions painted in a restrained but somewhat sentimental Baroque style. His landscapes with mythological or pastoral elements are considered more important works; these are akin to Rubens's later landscape paintings.

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