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Andries Both (1612/1613, Utrecht
Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands province of Utrecht . It is located in the North-Eastern end of the Randstad, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, with a population of 300,030....
 - March 23 1642, Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
) Dutch genre painter
Genre painting

Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes....
, one of the bamboccianti
Bamboccianti

File:KDujardinsCommedia.jpgThe Bamboccianti were Genre works active in Rome from about 1625 until the end of the seventeenth century. Most were Netherlands and Flemings artists who brought existing peasant traditions from Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting with them to Italy, and generally created small cabinet paintings or etchings...
, and brother of Jan Dirksz Both
Jan Dirksz Both

Jan Dirksz Both , brother of Andries Both, was a Netherlands painter.From 1634 to 1637 he was taught by Bloemaert and the painter Gerard van Honthorst before travelling to Rome ca....
.

Both was the son of a glass painter, and studied under Abraham Bloemaert
Abraham Bloemaert

Abraham Bloemaert , was a Netherlands Painting and printmaker in etching and engraving.Bloemaert was the son of an architect, who moved his family to Utrecht in 1575, where Abraham was first a pupil of Gerrit Splinter and of Joos de Beer....
. According to Joachim von Sandrart, Andries and his brother Jan cooperated on the paintings, with Jan painting the landscapes and Andries the figures, though this view has been revised in the 20th century.






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Andries Both (1612/1613, Utrecht
Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands province of Utrecht . It is located in the North-Eastern end of the Randstad, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, with a population of 300,030....
 - March 23 1642, Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
) Dutch genre painter
Genre painting

Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes....
, one of the bamboccianti
Bamboccianti

File:KDujardinsCommedia.jpgThe Bamboccianti were Genre works active in Rome from about 1625 until the end of the seventeenth century. Most were Netherlands and Flemings artists who brought existing peasant traditions from Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting with them to Italy, and generally created small cabinet paintings or etchings...
, and brother of Jan Dirksz Both
Jan Dirksz Both

Jan Dirksz Both , brother of Andries Both, was a Netherlands painter.From 1634 to 1637 he was taught by Bloemaert and the painter Gerard van Honthorst before travelling to Rome ca....
.

Both was the son of a glass painter, and studied under Abraham Bloemaert
Abraham Bloemaert

Abraham Bloemaert , was a Netherlands Painting and printmaker in etching and engraving.Bloemaert was the son of an architect, who moved his family to Utrecht in 1575, where Abraham was first a pupil of Gerrit Splinter and of Joos de Beer....
. According to Joachim von Sandrart, Andries and his brother Jan cooperated on the paintings, with Jan painting the landscapes and Andries the figures, though this view has been revised in the 20th century. Andries stayed in Rouen
Rouen

Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie r?gion in France....
 in 1633, and he traveled on to Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, where is documented from 1635 to 1641. He first shared a studio with a fellow painter from Utrecht, Jan van Causteren. In 1638 his brother joined him, living on the Via Vittoria in the parish of San Lorenzo in Lucina
San Lorenzo in Lucina

San Lorenzo in Lucina is a churches of Rome Rome, dating back to the 4th century, and dedicated to Saint Lawrence, Roman deacon and martyr.The name Lucina comes from the Roman matron owner of the house on which the church was built....
 and perhaps both joining the Accademia di San Luca
Accademia di San Luca

The Accademia di San Luca, was an association of artists in Rome, founded in 1593 with the directorship of Federico Zuccari, with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists" above that of craftsman....
 and the group of painters led by Pieter van Laer
Pieter van Laer

Pieter van Laer was a the Netherlands Painting of Genre works scenes, active for over a decade in Rome, where his nickname was Il Bamboccio....
. In 1641 the brothers traveled back to Holland, but Andries met his death in Venice on the way, drowning in a canal as he was returning from some festivities.

His work is noted for its humorous and outrageous quality, mixed with objectivity and harsh reality, depicting the seamier side of Italian life with broad strokes. The style, known as Bambocciata, after the nickname of its originator, Pieter van Laer, known as il bamboccio, "the toddler" because of his physical deformities, depicted scenes of the low life, often grotesque and shocking to the aristocracy, used to a more idealized style of art.

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List of known paintings

  • Scene in a brothel (Formerly also known as 'the return of the prodigal son'); Canvas, 44 x 51 cm
    • Bredius Museum; Inv.nr. 116-1946, Cat.nr.21


  • Travellers by a Well (1635 -1641); wood
    • NGV International, The Art Foundation of Victoria; accession no. E3-1980;


  • Boors Carousing (1634, Utrecht)


  • Card Players (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)


  • Hunting by candlelight (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)