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- Adriaen Brouwer (1605 - 1638)
- A Boor Asleep
- Southern Netherlands
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- Date: 1630s
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on oak panel
- Image size: 36.6 x 27.6 cm
- Frame size: 56.5 x 48 x 5.5 cm
- Inv: P211
- Location: East Drawing Room
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- Brouwer’s career spanned both Catholic Flanders and the Protestant Dutch Republic. He may have studied with his father, a designer of tapestry cartoons at Oudenaarde in Flanders and is later said to have been a pupil of Frans Hals in Haarlem. First documented in Amsterdam in 1625, Brouwer was living in Haarlem by 1626. In 1631–32 he enrolled in the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp where he lived thereafter, specialising in low-life genre scenes of peasants drinking in taverns. His paintings follow the city dweller’s perspective on life in the countryside: direct and akin to caricature, depicting coarse facial expressions and strong emotions. Nevertheless, he sometimes made deliberate reference to contemporary moralizing literature, thus elevating low-life genre to a new intellectual level, which would have profound impact on artists such as Adriaen van Ostade and Jan Steen. This picture was a popular, frequently-copied composition. Brouwer’s paintings were highly regarded by artists and collectors during his lifetime: Rembrandt owned at least six and Rubens acquired seventeen.