Abraham Bloemaert (1566 – 1651)

• Was a Dutch painter and printmaker.
• Bloemaert was born in Gorinchem, Habsburg Netherlands.
• His family moved to Utrecht in 1575, where Abraham was first a pupil of Gerrit Splinter and of Joos de Beer.
• From the age of 15 or 16, he then spent three years in Paris from 1581–1583, studying six weeks under a Jehan Bassot. 
• He mostly painted history subjects and some landscapes.
• In 1611, along with the two other leading Utrecht painters, Joachim Wtewael and Paulus Moreelse, he was one of the founders of the Utrecht Guild of Saint Luke.
• Among his many pupils were his four sons, Hendrick, Frederick, Cornelis, and Adriaan.
• The RKD also lists Jan Aerntsz de Hel, Abraham Jacobsz van Almeloveen, Cornelius de Beer, Nicolaes van Bercheyck, Jan van Bijlert, the two Boths, the two Honthorsts, Leonaert Bramer, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Willem van Drielenburg, Wybrand de Geest, Nicolaus Knüpfer, Hendrik Munnicks, Frederick Pithan, Cornelis van Poelenburch, Henrik Schook, Anthoni Ambrosius Schouten, Robert Jansz Splinter, Matthias Stom, Herman van Swanevelt, Dirck Voorst, Quintijnus de Waerdt, Jan Baptist Weenix, and Peter Petersz van Zanen.
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