Hendrick the Brugghen Date 1628
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 85.5 X 70 cm (33.66 X 27.56 in)
cyf Heraclitus 1588-1629
Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was, with Gerrit van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen, one of the leading painters in the group of artists active in Utrecht in the 1620s who came to be known as the UTRECHT CARAVAGGISTI, since they adapted Caravaggio's subject-matter and style to suit the Dutch taste for religious and secular paintings. Ter Brugghen was an important innovator for later Dutch 17th-century genre painting; his recognition as an unorthodox,
