Jan Jozef Horemans I (1682–1759) Interior with Figures

Jan Jozef Horemans I (Antwerp 1682 – 1759 Antwerp)

Interior with Elegant Figures

Oil on canvas, 48 x 57.5 cm

Signed ‘J. Horemans’ (lower left)

Provenance: private collection, Belgium

Horemans was born in Antwerp and was registered at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of the sculptor Michiel van der Voort the Elder in the guild year 1694-95 and later of the painter Jan van Pee. In 1706 he became master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke. The next year he married Maria Francisca van der Voort, the daughter of his first master Michiel van der Voort the Elder. Their son Jan Josef Horemans the Younger also became a painter.

He is known for portraits, genre works, and historical allegories. He produced large number of small anecdotal pictures that were executed in the tradition of 17th-century Flemish genre painters.

Jan Josef Horemans was the leading chronicler of everyday life in Antwerp in the first half of the 18th century. He used various tricks of composition to present a vivid account of episodes in private houses, inns and courtyards.

This painting is in beautiful condition.