Alexander Casteels the Younger

Only a few works are attributed to Casteels. There are five works, all in watercolor on paper, that depict interiors of chapels and churches in Antwerp. Only two works are dated. The first is dated 1710 and shows an Interior view of the small Gothic St Anne chapel in de Keizerstraat in Antwerp. This work is located in the chapel itself and shows the altarpiece that now no longer hangs in the chapel. The second work represents the Interior of the James' Church of Antwerp. A third work depicts the Interior of the chapel of the Jesuit college in the Hof van Liere (Rhode Island School of Design Museum) in the Prinsstraat in Antwerp. In the St. Charles Borromeo Church, Antwerp hangs an undated interior view of that church without figures. Casteels also depicted the interior of the Cathedral of Our Lady, but the location of this work is unknown. Because of their naive style, these works of Casteels lean more towards folk art than fine art. They are not of a very high painterly quality but serve as interesting documentation about these buildings that are still in existence in Antwerp.^[3]

Casteels is likely the author of The Ommegang on the Meir in Antwerp (Museum aan de Stroom), which appears to be a copy after the engraving made by the Antwerp engraver Gaspar Bouttats in 1685.^[4]

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