Barthel Bruyn the Younger, ca. (1530-before 1610)

• Usually called Barthel Bruyn the Younger to distinguish him from his father of the same name.
• Was a German painter active in Cologne.
• He is noted mainly for his portraits.
• He was born in Cologne, where he trained in his father's workshop.
• From about 1547, he worked with his father and his older brother Arnt on a series of 57 scenes from the New Testament for the cloisters of Cologne’s Karmelitenkloster.
• His only signed painting, a diptych of Christ Carrying the Cross and Vanitas (1560, in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn), has served as a touchstone for scholars who have identified Bruyn the Younger's body of work by style.
• His portraits are similar in style to those of his father, but are slightly simpler.
• After his father died in 1555, Bruyn inherited the workshop and continued to serve the same clientele.
• He was elected to the Cologne City Council in 1567, 1580, and 1607.
• His failing eyesight caused him to cease painting and close the shop around 1590.
• He died in Cologne between 1607 and 1610.
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