Reyer van Blommendael

Xantippe dousing Socrates, painting from ca. 1655, now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.

Paris and Oenone, now at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

Sint-Bavo Saves Haarlem

Reyer Jacobsz van Blommendael (27 June 1628 (baptised) – 23 November 1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Haarlem.

Biography

He entered the Guild of that city in 1662, and was buried in the St. Bavochurch there where later his sister Risje (who had previously named him in her will) was also buried.^[1] His sister's will from 1669 stated that he was living in Amsterdam, and her newer will from 1675 mentions him living in the Hague.

His works were attributed by Johannes Vermeer, Dirck van Baburen, Cesar van Everdingen, Abraham Bloemaert, Jan van Bronchorst and Gerard van Honthorst.

Works

• Paris and Oenone, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
• Lot and His Sons, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque, attributed
• Xantippe Dousing Socrates (c. 1655), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, attributed
• Saint Bavo Saves Haarlem (1673), St. Bavochurch, Harlem

Notes

1. Reyer Jacobsz van Blommendael in the RKD

References

• This article incorporates text from the article "BLOMMENDAAL, Reyer Jacobsz" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.