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ADRIAEN BROUWER
(Flemish, 1605/06-1638)
Flemish genre painter, mainly of low life, and
landscape painter. He led a dissipated life and died of the plague at Antwerp.
In his realistic, often dramatic, tavern scenes the vulgarities and rowdy emotions
of the subjects are fully recorded. Brouwer often used dark tones and thick, violent but
economical brush-strokes; in his last years he painted sensitive impressionistic
landscapes. Brouwer's genre pieces strongly influenced Terners the Younger and van Ostade.
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