Hieronymus van Orley | |
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Born | 1590 |
Died | Unknown |
Education | apprenticed to Antonie Drua |
Style | Baroque |
Movement | Catholic Reformation |
Patron | Maria de Taye |
Website | rkd |
Hieronymus van Orley (active c. 1612) was a Franciscan painter in the Spanish Netherlands.
Van Orley was born in Brussels in 1590 and learnt the art of painting from Antonie Drua in Mechelen around 1612. [1] Maria de Taye, abbess of Forest Abbey outside Brussels, commissioned paintings from him for the abbey church. [2] A number of his portraits were engraved by Richard Collin and were reproduced in Jean François Foppens, Bibliotheca belgica (2 vols., Brussels, 1739). [3]