Balthasar Lauwers

Balthasar Lauwers, known in Italy as Baldassare Lauri or Baldassare Lauro[1][2] (Antwerp, baptized on 18 April 1578 - Rome, 4 August 1645) was a Flemish landscape painter who, after initially training in Antwerp, had a successful career in Italy where he worked for an elite clientele.

[3] He was enrolled in 1590 under the name Balten Lauwers at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Francoys Borsse, a painter.

Prior to 1603, Balthasar Lauwers married Hélène (Elena) Cousin, daughter of Henri Cousin, a goldsmith from Paris and scion of a prominent family of French goldsmiths and artists, including two painters of the School of Fontainebleau.

He also worked for other prominent personalities of the Roman aristocracy and higher church hierarchy.

[4] The painter Angelo Caroselli, who had become a widower, married in 1642 his daughter Brigitta Lauwers (Lauri).

[11] Aside from his sons, the architectural painter François de Nomé was also a pupil of Balthasar Lauwers.