Marten Rijckaert was born in Antwerp, and probably taught there by his father. He may then have visited Italy. From 1611 he worked in Antwerp. By this time he had already lost one arm but continued to paint. Van Dyck's striking portrait of him (Museo del Prado, Madrid) shows his disability.
Marten Rijckaert
1587 - 1631
Paintings by Marten Rijckaert
Possibly by Marten Rijckaert
This tiny jewel of a picture was made at a time when landscape painting was beginning to be appreciated as an important genre of its own. While no longer a poor relation of pictures of great historical events or of stories from the Bible or Greek myths and legend, it was common for landscape pain...
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