Jan Geeraerts (15 May 1814 – Antwerp) was a Belgian painter. He is known for his realist interiors of churches and other ancient buildings. He also painted genre scenes and religious subjects. ^[1]

Life

Jan Geeraerts was born in Antwerp on 15 May 1814. He became a student at the Academy of Antwerp where he studied, amongst others, under the genre painter Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans ^[2] He participated in the Salons in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent. ^[1]

Geeraerts lived at 118 Lange Leemstraat in Antwerp. He died in Antwerp on 9 January 1890. ^[1]

Works

Geeraerts painted mainly interiors of churches and picturesque old buildings. He also painted genre scenes and religious subjects. The church interior was a genre practiced in Northern European painting since the 16th century. In the 19th century a few Belgian artists were also specialised in this genre including artists such as: Bernard Neyt, Jules-Victor Genisson, Joseph-Chrétien Nicolié, André-Joseph Minguet and Joseph Maswiens.

Geeraerts' church interiors generally depict Antwerp churches such as in the Interior of the St. Paul's church in Antwerp ( Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp). He also painting of the interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with a view of the mausoleum of William the Silent. ^[1] He also painted in 1873 in frightening detail the ruins of the Antwerp stock exchange which had burned down 15 years earlier. ^[3]

References

External links

• Media related to Jan Geeraerts at Wikimedia Commons