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Adriaen Brouwer The Card Players oil on wood
25 X 39 cm (9.84 X 15.35 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer The Smokers or The Peasants of Moerdijk 1627-30
Oil on panel
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Adriaen Brouwer Young Children Playing a Game 17th century
Oil on panel
35.7 X 48 cm (14.06 X 18.9 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer Young Children Playing a Game 17th century
Oil on panel
35.7 X 48 cm (14.06 X 18.9 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer Two Peasants Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 22 x 18 cm (8.7 x 7.1 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer Das Schlachtfest Oil on panel
Dimensions 34 x 37 cm
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Adriaen Brouwer Tavern Scene Date ca. 1635(1635)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 48 x 76 cm (18.9 x 29.9 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer Jan Davidsz Oil on panel
Dimensions 24 x 19 cm (9.4 x 7.5 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer Das Schlachtfest English: c. 1630-1640
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 34 x 37 cm
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Adriaen Brouwer Streitende Bauern in einem Wirtshaus Date 1630(1630)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 30 x 25 cm (11.8 x 9.8 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer The Bitter Draught Date ca. 1635(1635)
Medium Oil on wood
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Adriaen Brouwer Twilight Landscape Date between 1633(1633) and 1637(1637)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 17 cm (6.7 in). Width: 26 cm (10.2 in).
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Adriaen Brouwer Interior of a Smoking Room Date between 1630(1630) and 1632(1632)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 22 cm (8.7 in). Width: 29 cm (11.4 in).
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Adriaen Brouwer Dune Landscape by Moonlight Date between 1635(1635) and 1637(1637)
Medium Oil on oak
Dimensions Height: 25 cm (9.8 in). Width: 34 cm (13.4 in).
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Adriaen Brouwer In the Tavern Date first half of 17th century
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 36 cm (14.2 in). Width: 27 cm (10.6 in).
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Adriaen Brouwer Youth Making a Face Date between 1632(1632) and 1635(1635)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 13.7 x 10.5 cm (5.4 x 4.1 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer Youth Making a Face Date c. 1632/1635
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 13.7 x 10.5 cm (5.4 x 4.1 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer Peasants Smoking and Drinking c. 1635(1635)
Medium Oil on wood
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Adriaen Brouwer The Smokers 1636
Medium oil on wood
Dimensions 46.4 x 36.8 cm (18.3 x 14.5 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer Peasant Inn Oil on wood
Dimensions 27 x 35 cm (10.6 x 13.8 in)
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Adriaen Brouwer
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(1605 - January 1638) was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
At a young age Brouwer, probably born as Adriaen de Brauwer in Oudenaarde, moved perhaps via Antwerp to Haarlem, where he became a student of Frans Hals alongside Adriaen van Ostade. He also was active in stage acting and poetry. He stayed in Haarlem and Amsterdam until 1631, when he moved back to Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. There, he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1631-1632, as well as the rhetoricians's chamber De Violieren.
Tradition has it that Brouwer himself spent much time in the alehouses of Flanders and Holland. His works are typically detailed and small, and often adopt themes of debauchery, drunkenness and foolishness in order to explore human emotions, expressions and responses to pain, fear and the senses. The Bitter Tonic is an example of the type of work that depicts such responses, in this case the sense of taste. His work was well liked, to the point that forgeries were sold in his own time. Both Rubens and Rembrandt owned a number of his works. Nevertheless, Brouwer appeared in financial trouble throughout his life.
He died at the early age of 32 in Antwerp, where he was first buried in a common grave.
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