Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert
(1614–1654) painter (1613-1654)
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1614–1654) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert was born in Bergen op Zoom and died in Antwerp. Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert studied under Gerard Seghers. Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert worked in Antwerp. Wikidata associates Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert with Baroque and Flemish Baroque painting. Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert became a member of Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.
The best-known works include ‘The Virgin Crowned by the Infant Christ’ and ‘Allegorical depiction of Mars (Friedrich Wilhelm, elector of Brandenburg?) receiving the weapons of Venus (Louisa Henrietta, countess of Nassau?) and Vulcan’. The catalogue has 31 works by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert with free images. The dated works span the years 1630–1700. Works by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert are held by several collections, among them Museum Plantin-Moretus, Nationalmuseum, Kunsthistorisches Museum, and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Zacharias Wagner, Jan Mijtens, Jacob van Loo, Pieter Holsteyn, and Bertholet Flemalle.