Jan Baptist van Fornenburgh [SEP] place of death
Jan Baptist van Fornenburgh
Jan Baptist van Fornenburgh (1585 in Antwerp – 1650 in The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
Biography.
According to the RKD he signed his works with a monogram "IBVF" or sometimes just "IB". He worked in Amsterdam and Vianen, as well as the Hague, where he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1629. He was a follower of Balthasar van der Ast and Jacob de Gheyn II.
References.
- Jan Baptist
: "Portrait of Heinrich Karl Hofmann", Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (url)
- Giovanni Battista Fontana (painter) (1524–1587), 2 works : "Design for a Festival Entry (detail)", Kunstbibliothek, Berlin (url)
- Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614), 1 drawing : "Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez", The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (url)
- Jan Baptist van Fornenburgh (1590–1648), 1 gouache : "Flowers", Musée du Louvre, Paris (url