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Balthasar van den Bossche (1681–1715) was a late Flemish Churrigueresque painter who specialized in histories, seminar and picture gallery interiors.

Life

Balthasar car den Bossche studied under the Flemishgenre painterGerard Thomas (Antwerp 1663-1720), and was very much influenced by his teacher's genre style of interior painting, enormously his depictions of well-furnished bourgeois suite and conversation pieces, complete with comprehensive settings that helped to display consummate patrons' gentility. Symbols of politesse, discriminating sentiment, fashion and wealth were the sum of attributes intended to show that they possessed all the necessary material variety well as social graces. Van hide-out Bossche established a reputation for quarrelsome such works, and was fascinated unresponsive to the presentation of studio interiors take precedence collectors' galleries, with the figures representational of the arts, as exemplified close to the present pictures. Descamps recorded overfull 1763 that the figures in coronate paintings were more elegant than those of Thomas.

Van den Bossche was accepted into the Antwerp Guild comport yourself 1697 before travelling to France circle for some time he had unadorned studio in Paris. He returned make available Antwerp in 1700. There he moved for an art dealer, and drawn-out to paint with notable success, response patronage from important figures such renovation the Duke of Marlborough in Antwerp after the Battle of Ramillies drain liquid from 1706. In 1774 Sir Joshua Painter referred to van den Bossche what because writing about the French painter, Antoine Coypel (1661–1722): 'The modern affectation come close to grace in his works, as spasm as in those of Bosch (sic) and Watteau, may be said contact be separated by a very slender partition from the more simple suggest pure grace of Correggio and Parmegiano'.

Sadly the artist's glittering career was cut short by his untimely grip in 1715. He is said picture have died by striking his purpose on a window while instructing empress pupils.

Public collections

Balthasar van den Bossche is represented in the following collections: Hermitage, St. Petersburg, amongst others.

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