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Genoels, Abraham, II
(bapt Antwerp, 25 May 1640; d Antwerp, 10 May 1723). Flemish painter and etcher. His father was Peeter Genoels, not the minor Antwerp painter Abraham Genoels I ( fl 1628–37). Abraham II was apprenticed to Jacob Backereel (c. 1612–after 1658) by the age of 11 but left in 1655 to join Nicolaas Maerten Fierlants (1622–94) of ’s Hertogenbosch, who specialized in perspective paintings. In 1659 Genoels went to Paris after a journey through the northern Netherlands. There, with the help of his cousin Laurent Francken ( fl 1622–63), he became an assistant to the French academician Gilbert de Sève, in whose workshop he painted background landscapes for tapestry cartoons (untraced), including a series of eight tapestries with children playing, commissioned by the Marquis de Louvois. Genoels also worked on a series of paintings for the château of Chantilly for the Princesse de Condé and on a commission from the English ambassador to France (all untraced). De Sève introduced him to Charles Le Brun, who invited him to work at the Gobelins, of which Le Brun was then director. Le Brun also proposed Genoels for membership of the Académie Royale de Peinture, to which he was received (reçu) on 4 January 1665. As Le Brun’s assistant, Genoels participated in the execution of many royal commissions, for instance the cycle of five paintings depicting the History of Alexander (Paris, Louvre), for which he painted the background landscapes in a conventional and academic style with cool and monochromatic colouring. In 1669–70 he was sent by Louis XIV to Marimont (Moselle) to make sketches of the castle, from which he later produced tapestry cartoons.
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