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Pieter Boel (1622-1674)

• Was a Flemish painter, printmaker and tapestry designer.
• He specialised in lavish still lifes and animal paintings.
• He moved to Paris, where he worked in the gobelin factory and became a painter to the king.
• Pieter Boel revolutionized animal painting by working directly from live animals in a natural setting.
• He had many followers in France.
• By 1668-1669 he had moved to Paris where he formed part of the group of Flemish artists who had congregated around Charles Le Brun and resided at the Hôtel Royal des Gobelins.
• Boel follows to a large extent the style of his teacher Jan Fijt.
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