Shepherd and Shepherdess

religious

Several small mythological and allegorical compositions executed in the 1640s can be ascribed to Thomas van Yperen, who became master in Antwerp in 1639-40. Both in their fluent pictorial nature and in the tensely emotive figures in their landscape setting, his paintings are unthinkable without the influence of the work of Rubens's last period.

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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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