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Rombouts, Theodoor
(b Antwerp, 2 July 1597; d Antwerp, 14 Sept 1637). Flemish painter. After 1608 he was apprenticed to Abraham Janssen and between 1616 and 1625 was in Italy; he is recorded in Rome in 1620 and may have worked in Florence for Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. In 1625 he became a master of the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp and embarked on a distinguished career, producing mainly secular paintings for private individuals and for the open market but also some altarpieces. Many of his official commissions came from Ghent. He also added figures to still-lifes by other artists, those of Adriaen van Utrecht, for example. He is the main representative of the Flemish Caravaggisti, who were more or less contemporaneous with the UTRECHT CARAVAGGISTI and became fashionable in the southern Netherlands c. 1620–40.
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