Thomas van Apshoven (1622-1664)

• Was a Flemish painter.
• Apshoven is known for his landscapes with peasant scenes and genre scenes in interiors.
• His genre scenes depict village festivals, the interiors of taverns, village scenes or landscapes with peasants engaged in various activities, singeries, guardroom scenes and laboratories of alchemists.
• His father was a painter who had studied with Adam van Noort. 
• His younger brother Ferdinand van Apshoven the Younger became also a successful painter.
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