Johan Baptist Govaerts

Johan Baptist Govaerts[1] (c. 1701 – after 1745) was a Flemish painter known for his still lifes and genre paintings.

His master Alexander van Bredael was a local painter known for his Italianate landscapes and genre scenes of fairs, cattle markets and villages.

[2] In 1740 the artist left Antwerp to move to Mainz where he was court painter to the Archbishop-Elector Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich.

[2] Johan Baptist Govaerts painted flower still lifes, genre scenes, history paintings, game pieces, fruit still lifes and mythological scenes.

[2] Four genre scenes and a portrait of a hermit by the artist are in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.