Albertus Clouwet
Illustration — Engraved portrait of Cardinal Gaspare Carpegna, 1670 Albertus Clouwet (name variations: Albertus Clouet, Albert Clowet, Aubert Clouwet, Haubertus Clouwet, Albertus Cluet, nickname Zandzak) (1636, Antwerp – 1679, Naples), was a Flemish engraver who had a successful career in the Kingdom of Naples.
Also recorded as Albert Clouet · Haubertus Clouwet · Albert Clowet · Albert Cluet
Albertus Clouwet
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- Born
- 1624. · Antwerp.
- Died
- 1679. · Naples.
- Occupation
- printmaker, copper engraver and artist.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Illustration — Engraved portrait of Cardinal Gaspare Carpegna, 1670 Albertus Clouwet (name variations: Albertus Clouet, Albert Clowet, Aubert Clouwet, Haubertus Clouwet, Albertus Cluet, nickname Zandzak) (1636, Antwerp – 1679, Naples), was a Flemish engraver who had a successful career in the Kingdom of Naples.
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The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is visual arts, engraving and copper engraving technique. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome, Florence and Naples. Work by Albertus Clouwet is recorded in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and Musea Brugge.
He travelled to Rome and joined the bentvueghels with the bentname Zandzak. He arrived there in the company of the painter Abraham Genoels, whose party he joined en route southwards from Antwerp. He was possibly the cousin of Peeter or Petrus Clouwet. He was a pupil of Cornelis Bloemaert in Rome and worked with him in Florence. Back in Rome in 1663 he married the German lady Lucia Fosman there. He is known as a portrait engraver.
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- 1.Pero según Edmund De Busscher en su entrada de la Biographie nationale de Belgique habría nacido en Amberes en 1624 y fallecido allí mismo en 1687.
- 2.«Albertus Clouwet» en el Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie.
- 3.Biographie nationale de Belgique, t. 4, col. 192.
- 4.Heroicae virtutis imagines (Images of heroic deeds), British Museum, Collection online.
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