Aernout van Buchel [SEP] native language
Aernout van Buchel
Aernout van Buchel (Latinised: Arnoldus Buchelius) (Utrecht, 1565 – Utrecht, 15 July 1641) was a Dutch antiquarian and humanist, specialising in genealogy and heraldry.
Life.
Buchel was the illegitimate child of a Canon of the St. Peter's Church in Utrecht. He studied in Leiden for several months, but in 1585 he continued his studies in France, where he made contacts with other learned men who were interested by Roman ruins, inscriptions and writings. He travelled to Rome,
had already trained with Jacob Willemsz Delff in Delft 3 years before that for 2 months. Together, master and pupil travelled to Italy, where Rijk spent 15 years.
According to Hessel Miedema who researched van Mander's Schilder-boeck, Grimani and van Rijk travelled to Italy in 1588, and Grimani was listed in the Delft Guild book, opened in 1613, as the second best painter of Delft after Michael Mierevelt. The Utrecht diaries of Aernout van Buchel also mentioned him as one of two noteworthy painters in Delft in