JACOBUS VREL

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture by Gautam Shah 

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Jacobus Vrel (1654-1670) was Dutch, Flemish, (or Westphalian =NW Germany), painter of interiors and town street scenes. He worked through the Dutch Golden period (1588–1672).

In terms of pictorial ideas, Vrel was a forerunner of Vermeer, rather than a follower. He has in common with Vermeer, the simplicity of composition, lesser attention to details. Vrel painted without glazes. He painted intimate atmospheric scenes of everyday life of the Dutch middle class. But he never painted any historical or important events. Due to little historical evidence, he has been called, ‘the most elusive painter of 17^th C. Holland’. It is believed that he lived in a provincial town, rather than a major art centre. The places in his scenes are possibly imaginary. 

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