Bernardo Eberhart Keilhau (1624-1687)

• Known in Italy under the pseudonym of Monsù Bernardo.
• Was a Danish Baroque painter.
• Bernardo Eberhart Keilhau became a pupil of Rembrandt.
• Keil was born in Helsingør.
• According to the RKD he was a pupil of the Danish painter Morten Steenwinkel, who became a pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam in the years 1642-1644.
• In 1645-1648 he was with Hendrick Uylenburgh.
• He had a workshop of his own in the years 1649-1651.
• In 1656 he travelled to Rome, and is registered there until 1687, when he died.
• He also worked in Bergamo and Venice.
• He was influenced by Jan Lievens.
• Bernardo Eberhart Keilhau influenced the painters Pietro Bellotti, Antonio Cifrondi, and Giacomo Francesco Cipper.
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