Joos van Craesbeeck (1605/6-c.1600): Een Brabants Genreschilder

Joos van Craesbeeck was one of the leading genre painters in de seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands. As the only known pupil of Adriaen Brouwer, he contributed together with David II Teniers (1610-1690) and David III Ryckaert (1612-1661) to the revival of Flemish genre painting in the 1630s. His career was atypical by his combination of jobs. Originally trained as a baker, he did not start to paint until later in life, probably stimulated by the flowering of the arts in Antwerp. Initially h…