Johannes Popels Explained

Johannes Popels
Birth Date:1590
Death Date:1663
Death Place:Tournai
Nationality:Dutch

Jan or Johannes Popels (1590 – 1663) was a painter of the Southern Netherlands.

Popels became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke from 1622 until 1663.[1] He engraved religious subjects, and Vienna's Albertina has his Group of Three Naked Children.[1] He worked for the catalog of Italian painters in the gallery of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, making copies of paintings and modelli in collaboration with David Teniers the Younger.

He died in Tournai.

Notes and References

  1. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00144490 POPELS, Jan or Hans - Painter, engraver