Meulen, Adam Frans van der
Date of birth and death: 1632 - 1690Nationality: Flemish
Uploaded artworks: 10Adam Frans van der Meulen (Brussels, January 11, 1632 – 15 October 1690, Paris) was a Flemish Baroque painter specialising in battle scenes. He was active first in Brussels, where he was a pupil of was pupil of Pieter Snayers, and from the 1660s onwards in Paris.
He joined the painters' guild in Brussels in 1651. Focussing his art on representing horses and landscapes, his fame crossed borders and in 1662 was called to Paris by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, at the instance of Charles Le Brun, to fill the post of battle painter to Louis XIV of France.
His paintings during the campaigns of Flanders in 1667 so delighted Louis that from that date van der Meulen was ordered to accompany him in all his expeditions. In 1673 he was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, attained the grade of councillor in 1681, and died full of honors in Paris in 1690.
He is best represented by the series of twenty-three paintings, mostly executed for Louis XIV, now in the Louvre. They show that he always retained his Flemish predilections in point of color, although his style was modified by that of the French school.
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Meulen, Adam Frans van der
New Chateau at Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Date: Movement: Baroque Theme: Architecture Technique: Oil on canvas
Meulen, Adam Frans van der
Army of Louis XIV in front of Tournai in 1667
Date: 1684 Movement: Baroque Theme: History Technique: Oil on canvas
Meulen, Adam Frans van der
French Army Crossing the Rhine at Lobith, 12 June 1672
Date: c. 1672 Movement: Baroque Theme: History Technique: Oil on canvas
Meulen, Adam Frans van der
Friends in the Garden
Date: 1679 Movement: Rococo Theme: Genre Technique: Oil on canvas
Meulen, Adam Frans van der
Construction of the Chateau de Versailles
Date: 1669 Movement: Baroque Theme: Architecture Technique: Oil on canvas
Meulen, Adam Frans van der
Musical Horseman
Date: 1670s Movement: Rococo Theme: Battle Scene Technique: Pencil
Meulen, Adam Frans van der
Self portrait
Date: Not dated Movement: Baroque Theme: Self Portrait Technique: Oil on wood
Meulen, Adam Frans van der
Louis XIV at the siege of Besancon 1674
Date: 1674 Movement: Baroque Theme: History Technique: Oil on canvas
Meulen, Adam Frans van der
The siege of Kortrijk
Date: 1667 Movement: Baroque Theme: Battle Scene Technique: Oil on canvas