Bernhard Keil
Illustration — Young Boy Selling Kindling Wood Bernhard Keil or Keyl (1624 – 3 February 1687) was a Danish Baroque painter who became a pupil of Rembrandt.
Also recorded as Eberhard Keil, Bernhard Keilhau, Monsù Bernardo · Bernardo Eberhart Keilhau · Bernard Keil · Monsu Bernardo Kailo
Bernhard Keil
Bernhard Keil · Public domain
- Born
- 1624 · Helsingør.
- Died
- 1687 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Teachers
- Rembrandt · Morten Steenwinkel
- Languages
- Danish
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Illustration — Young Boy Selling Kindling Wood Bernhard Keil or Keyl (1624 – 3 February 1687) was a Danish Baroque painter who became a pupil of Rembrandt.
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Training under Rembrandt and Morten Steenwinkel is recorded. The recorded working language is Danish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Work by Bernhard Keil is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museo del Prado, National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Serpukhov historical-art museum.
Keil was born in Helsingør. According to the RKD he was a pupil of the Danish painter Morten Steenwinkel and became a pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam from 1642 until 1644. From1645 to 1648 he was with Hendrick Uylenburgh and he had a workshop of his own from 1649 to 1651. In 1656 he travelled to Rome, and is registered there until 1687, when he died. He also worked in Bergamo and Venice. He was influenced by Jan Lievens and in turn influenced the painters Pietro Bellotti (1627–1700), Antonio Cifrondi, and Giacomo Francesco Cipper.
17th-century paintings in Galleria dell’Accademia Carrara (Bergamo)
Francesco Bini
Bernhard Keil - An Old Man Holding a Stick, circa, 1654
Bernhard Keil · https: agnes.queensu.ca/explore/collections/object/an-old-man-holding-a-stick/
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1624
Bernhard Keil born at Helsingør.
1650
A huntsman resting by a tree with a hound, chickens and other birds is dated 1650.
1687
Bernhard Keil died at Rome.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Eberhard Keil, Bernhard Keilhau, Monsù Bernardo, Bernardo Eberhart Keilhau, Bernard Keil, Monsu Bernardo Kailo and Bernhard Kailo. His recorded language was Danish.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museo del Prado, National Gallery of Canada and Metropolitan Museum of Art
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