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ABRAHAM VAN DIEPENBECK (1599-1675)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 210 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABRAHAM See also:VAN See also:DIEPENBECK (1599-1675)  , Flemish painter, was See also:born at Herzogenbusch, and studied See also:painting at See also:Antwerp, where he became one of See also:Rubens's " See also:hundred pupils." But he was not one of the cleverest of Rubens's followers, and he succeeded, at the best, in imitating the See also:style and aping the peculiarities of his See also:master . We see this in his earliest pictures—a portrait dated 1629 in the See also:Munich Pinakothek, and a " See also:Distribution of See also:Alms " of the same See also:period in the same collection . Yet even at this See also:time there were moments when See also:Diepenbeck probably fancied that he might take another path . A solitary copperplate executed with his own See also:hand in 163o represents a See also:peasant sitting under a See also:tree holding the bridle of an See also:ass, and this is a See also:minute and finished specimen of the engraver's See also:art which shows that the master might at one time have hoped to See also:rival the See also:animal See also:draughts-men who flourished in the See also:schools of See also:Holland . However, large commissions now poured in upon him; he was asked for See also:altar-pieces, subject-pieces and See also:pagan allegories . He was tempted to try the profession of a See also:glass-painter, and at last he gave up every A B C D ...... . other occupation for the lucrative business of a draughtsman and designer for engravings . Most of Diepenbeck's important can-vases are in See also:continental galleries . The best are the" See also:Marriage of St See also:Catherine " at See also:Berlin and " See also:Mary with Angels Wailing over the Dead See also:Body of See also:Christ " in the See also:Belvedere at See also:Vienna, the first a very See also:fair specimen of the artist's skill, the second a picture of more See also:energy and feeling than might be expected from one who knew more of the See also:outer See also:form than of the spirit of Rubens . Then we have the See also:fine "Entombment" at See also:Brunswick, and "St See also:Francis Adoring the See also:Sacrament " at the museum at See also:Brussels, " Clelia and her See also:Nymphs Flying from the Presence and Pursuit of Porsenna " in two examples at Berlin and See also:Paris, and " See also:Neptune and See also:Amphitrite" at See also:Dresden . In all these compositions the See also:drawing and See also:execution are after the See also:fashion of Rubens, though inferior to Rubens in See also:harmony of See also:tone and force of contrasted See also:light and shade . Occasionally a tendency may be observed to imitate the style of Vandyck, for whom, in respect of pictures, Diepenbeck in his lifetime was frequently taken .

But Diepenbeck spent much less of his leisure on canvases than on glass-painting . Though he failed to master the secrets of gorgeous tinting, which were lost, apparently for ever in the 16th See also:

century, he was constantly employed during the best years of his See also:life in that See also:branch of his profession . In 1635 he finished See also:forty scenes from the life of St Francis of Paula in the See also:church of the Minimes at Antwerp . In 1644 he received See also:payment for four windows in St Jacques of Antwerp, two of which are still preserved, and represent Virgins to whom Christ appears after the Resurrection . The windows ascribed to him at St Gudule of Brussels were executed from the cartoons of See also:Theodore See also:van Thulden . On the occasion of his matriculation at Antwerp in 1638–1639, Diepenbeck was registered in the guild of St See also:Luke as a glass-painter . He resigned his membership in the Artist See also:Club of the Violette in 1542, apparently because he See also:felt hurt by a valuation then made of drawings furnished for copperplates to the engraver Pieter de _lode . The earliest reccrd of his See also:residence at Antwerp is that of his See also:election to the brotherhood (Sodalitat) " of the Bachelors " in 1624 . It is probable that before this time he had visited See also:Rome and See also:London, as noted in the See also:work of See also:Houbraken . In 1636 he was made a See also:burgess of Antwerp . He married twice, in 1637 and 1652 . He died in See also:December '675, and was buried at St Jacques of Antwerp .

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