Anthony Vreem

Anthony Vreem (1660, Dordrecht – 1681, Dordrecht), was a 17th-century Dutch painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was a promising young painter who learned from Godfried Schalcken in the period that Schalcken was studying at the Latin school where Vreem's father was rector. He died young, still a student, and was mourned in the traditional way of young men in Dordrecht at the time, with laurels on his coffin and laurels worn by the coffin bearers. A sad poem was written in his death notice that Houbraken republished.^[1]

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Godfried Schalcken and the only paintings known by him are copies after older masters.^[2]

References

1. (Dutch) Anthony Vreem Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
2. Anthony Vreem in the RKD

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