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Author's biography |
Matthias Stom (Stomer), DutchCaravaggesque painter, whose style has much in common with the "biographl" tppabs="http:www.wga.hu/database/glossary/glossar6l#utrecht*/, 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=300');w.opener=this;w.focus();return false">Utrecht School. He was born in Amersfoort and was a pupil of Honthorst, presumably soon after 1620. He entered the Guild in Rome in 1630, but was in Naples c. 1632, and seems to have spent the rest of his life in Sicily and South Italy, and, perhaps, Malta (where several pictures remain), never returning to Holland. His only signed and dated work is at Caccamo near Palermo (S. Agostino, 1641). This picture was stolen in 1971, but recovered in 1985.Stom can be distinguished from Honthorst and other Dutch Caravaggisti by the pronounced leathery quality of his flesh tones and the metallic colours of his draperies. |
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