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A Flemish painter and draughtsman, brother of Cornelis and Jan de Vos. Like his brothers, he studied with David Remeeus and achieved the rank of master around 1620. His first paintings were identical in subject matter and motifs to those of Frans Snyders, with whom he worked during his training.
Paul de Vos was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his still lifes and hunting scenes. View Paul de Vos’s 324 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
View all 16 artworks. Paul de Vos lived in the XVI – XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Flemish Baroque. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Fulfilled orders of the Spanish king for country the hunting palaces of the Pardo and the Torre de La Parada. The large canvases by Paul de Vos, which is commonly called "hunting", depicts a fierce, frantic movement and wild freedom fight animals.
Vos, Paul de. 1596, 1678. See author's file. Cats fighting in a Larder. 1630 - 1640. Oil on canvas. On display elsewhere. With the owners or house servants away, the animals sneak into the larder, giving free rein to their instincts. This leads to a fight.
Unlike his older brother, the portrait and history painter Cornelis de Vos, Paul de Vos specialised in still lifes and animals, which he also included in works by Rubens and Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert. In return, he left the landscape in his paintings to specialists such as Jan Wildens.
Paul de Vos (1960) recognizes the laws of Baroque art and gives the work the graceful stroke of the Art Nouveau, an art movement with origins in growth and nature. Proportions such as the Golden Ratio, made up of rhythms, form the basis of the figurative abstraction in his work.
