Adriaen van Bloemen

He left his native Antwerp to work in Vienna where he became court painter to Emperor Leopold I.

[4] He left his native Antwerp to work in Vienna where he became court painter to Emperor Leopold I.

There is a signed Portrait of Prince Gundakar von Dietrichstein at the Libochovice Castle.

There was a painting on the same subject in the collection of the emperor (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna) referred to as A Gentlemen in the Draper's shop by the Dutch painter Frans van Mieris the Elder.

[3] Van Bloemen collaborated on the publication Historia di Leopoldo Cesare written by Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato and published in Vienna by the Flemish publisher from Antwerp Johann Baptist Hacque.

Van Bloemen provided a number of the designs of the portraits which are signed 'A Bloem' on the prints.

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