Antonie Palamedesz

ANTONIE PALAMEDESZ (Delft, 1601 - Amsterdam, 1673)
"Interior with characters."
Signed in the lower right corner.
Oil on panel.
Measurements: 60 x 84 cm; 78 x 104 cm (frame).
Repainting and damage.
Antonie Palamedes or Palamedesz was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age known and appreciated, mainly, for his portraits, although he also made genre scenes and other works of interiors, etc.. He would train in the workshops of other important figures such as Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt and Hans Jordaens, and would have joined the "Guild of St. Luke" in Delft, which he entered in 1621 or 1636. His younger brother Palamedes Palamedesz I was a painter specializing in battle scenes, and he himself served as his teacher, as well as his son Palamedes II, Ludolf de Jongh, etc.His work is preserved in important private collections and institutions such as the Stockholms Universitet Konstsamling in Stockholm, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Wallraf-Richarts Museum in Cologne, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (USA), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA), etc.Dutch Baroque painting from around the time of the Eighty Years' War (1568 - 1648) is known as Dutch Golden Age painting. It shows many characteristics of European Baroque, except, usually, the love of Roman Christian splendor and themes. The large production of the time is striking, whose recipients were the increasingly wealthy urban bourgeoisie, something that goes hand in hand with the proliferation of pictorial genres.