About Johannes Popels
Lived 1590 – 1663 (aged 72–73). Johannes Popels was a Dutch painter, visual artist and etcher.
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. He engraved religious subjects, and Vienna's Albertina has his Group of Three Naked Children. 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.
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Who was Johannes Popels?
painter of the Southern Netherlands (1590–1663)
When was Johannes Popels born?
Johannes Popels was born in 1590 in Tournai.
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Johannes Popels died in 1663 in Tournai.
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Johannes Popels was a painter, visual artist and etcher.
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Johannes Popels was Dutch.
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