Hieronymus van Orley
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Hieronymus van Orley | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1590 |
| Died | Unknown |
| Education | apprenticed to Antonie Drua |
| Style | Baroque |
| Movement | Catholic Reformation |
| Patron(s) | Maria de Taye |
| Website | rkd |
Hieronymus van Orley (active c. 1612) was a Franciscan painter in the Spanish Netherlands.
Van Orley was born in Brussels in 1590 and learnt the art of painting from Antonie Drua in Mechelen around 1612.[1] Maria de Taye, abbess of Forest Abbey outside Brussels, commissioned paintings from him for the abbey church.[2] A number of his portraits were engraved by Richard Collin and were reproduced in Jean François Foppens, Bibliotheca belgica (2 vols., Brussels, 1739).[3]
