Johann Baptist Ruel
Illustration — Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, 1676, now in the Kurpfälzisches Museum Johann Baptist Ruel, or de Ruel or de Rull, was born in Antwerp in 1634. He was introduced as a singer to the court of the Elector of Mayence, and was there instructed in painting by Jan Thomas. He afterwards settled at Würzburg, where he executed altar-pieces and portraits.
Also recorded as Johann Baptist De Rull · Johann Baptista von Ruel · Johann Baptist de Ruel · Johann Baptist de Rul
Johann Baptist Ruel
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- 1634 · Antwerp.
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- Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, 1676, now in the Kurpfälzisches Museum Johann Baptist Ruel, or de Ruel or de Rull, was born in Antwerp in 1634. He was introduced as a singer to the court of the Elector of Mayence, and was there instructed in painting by Jan Thomas. He afterwards settled at Würzburg, where he executed altar-pieces and portraits.
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A portrait by him is in the Munich Gallery. He died in 1685, or, according to others, in 1715.
The recorded working language is Dutch. Work by Johann Baptist Ruel is recorded in the collections of Bavarian State Painting Collections, Kurpfälzisches Museum and Ducal Museum Gotha.
Johann Hugo von Orsbeck (1634-1711), Electorate of Trier 1676-1711
Johann Baptist Ruel · Own work, Lothar Spurzem, (2014-08-30)
Exhibit in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany.
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