Dirck van Baburen

There, he collaborated with fellow countryman David de Haen and befriended the close follower of Caravaggio, Bartolomeo Manfredi.

Baburen also came to the attention of the art collectors and patrons Vincenzo Giustiniani and cardinal Scipione Borghese, and possibly under their influence he received the commission to paint the altarpiece of the Entombment for the chapel of the Pietà in San Pietro in Montorio around 1617.

Until his death in 1624 the painter, along with Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerard van Honthorst, helped establish the stylistic and thematic innovations now known as the Utrecht School of Caravaggisti.

[5] The Utrecht works made between 1621 as 1624, the final years of Baburen's career, merged the visual characteristics learnt from Caravaggio and Manfredi into genre, mythological and history painting.

This painting (or a copy) was owned by Johannes Vermeer's mother-in-law and appears in two of that artist's works, The Concert (stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) and Woman Seated at a Virginal (National Gallery, London).

The Lute Player , 1622.
Dirck van Baburen, Concert , 1623, oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum at Saint Petersburg.
Dirck van Baburen, The Procuress , 1622, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The painting was owned by Maria Thins , mother-in-law of Johannes Vermeer , who reproduced it within two of his own paintings. [ 1 ]
Young man singing, 1622, Städelsches Kunstinstitut
Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan by Dirck van Baburen (1623) Oil on canvas, 202 x 184 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.