Coenraet Roepel
Dutch painter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coenraet Roepel (1678–1748) was an 18th-century fruit and flower still life painter from the Dutch Republic.
,_by_Richard_van_Bleeck_and_Coenraet_Roepel.jpg)
Biography
_,_Stillleben.jpg)
He was born in The Hague. According to Jan van Gool he was an avid gardener and his love of flowers made him become a pupil of Constantijn Netscher so that he could paint the flowers and other plants in his garden.[1] He travelled to Düsseldorf in 1716 and received a gold chain and medal from Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine for his work.[1] He had high hopes of painting more for the elector, but his patron died the same year, so Coenraet returned to the Netherlands.[1] On his return, he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1718 and was very successful in The Hague, receiving as much as 1,000 guilders for a work, but was later eclipsed by the flower painter Jan van Huysum.[1]
According to the RKD he was trained in the Confrerie in 1698–1699 and first became a member there in 1711.[2] His pupil was Pieter Terwesten.[2] He died in 1748 in The Hague.
The Lazaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid owns a couple of Still lifes, one with fruits and the other a Vase with Flowers,[3] from Roepel.
