Adriaen van Bloemen

Van Bloemen was born in Antwerp. He left his native Antwerp to work in Vienna where he became court painter to Emperor Leopold I. engraved by Cornelis Meyssens after design by van Bloemen'' The place and time of van Bloemen's death are not known. It is believed he died in Vienna in or after 1694. He is last recorded in Vienna on 30 January 1694, the date on which his wife died. ==Work==

While he trained under an artist who was a landscape artist, van Bloemen specialised in portrait painting. He created individual and group portraits. His work is mainly known through the prints made after it by various engravers. While in Vienna, he signed his works with "A. Bloem". The painting ''In the draper's shop'' (1670s, Hallwyl Museum), which is signed 'A Bloem. f' (right on front of the business desk) shows that he may have been inspired by the paintings he saw in Vienna. There was a painting on the same subject in the collection of the emperor (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna) referred to as ''A Gentlemen in the Draper's shop'' by the Dutch painter Frans van Mieris the Elder. ==References==