Pieter Vogelaer

Place: Antwerp

Born: 1641

Death: 1720

Biography:

Pieter Vogelaer was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was born in Antwerp and trained in the workshop of Nicolaas van Eyck. He traveled to Turkey where he resided in the period 1665-1669. He left for Rome around 1674-1675. In 1675 he is recorded in Rome where he was a pupil or worked in the workshop of the Franc-comtois-Italian battle painter Jacques Courtois. He married Margarita Gambari in Rome on 12 September 1682. In 1688 their son was baptized in the San Lorenzo in Lucina church, with the flower painter Carel de Vogelaer acting as godfather. The family lived in Via della Croce and between 1674 and 1692 in Via Babuino. He joined the association of mainly Flemish and Dutch painters called the 'Bentvueghels' (shortened as the 'bent'). He got the bent name 'Janitzer' (Janissary, a member of the elite infantry units that formed the household troops of the Ottoman Sultan). He died in Rome in February 1692. He is known for battles scenes and works with cavalry in battle in the style of Jacques Courtois. In particular, he specialized in painting battle scenes between Turks and Christians.