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Abraham Godijn or Abraham Godyn (alternative spellings of family name: Goddijn and Abraham Goddyn) (1655/56 – after 1724) was a Flemish painter who, after a stay in Italy, worked for a time as a court painter in Prague where he produced magnificent Baroque frescos. He later returned to Antwerp.〔(Abraham Godijn ) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History 〕 ==Life== Details about his life are scarce. Abraham Godijn was probably born in 1655 or 1656 in Antwerp where he studied under the prominent history painter Hendrik Herregouts. He became in 1681 a member of the 'Sodaliteit van de Bejaerde Jongmans', a fraternity for bachelors established by the Jesuit order. Not long thereafter he travelled to Italy.〔 His work was well received in Rome where he became a court painter of the Pope and received the title of 'Painter of the Office of his Imperial and Catholic Majesty'.〔(Abraham Godyn ) at the Biographie Nationale de Belgique, Volume 8, p. 21-22 〕 He moved on to Prague in 1690 where he worked as a court painter until 1698. He received a commission to paint frescos in the Troja Palace in Prague on which he worked with his brother Izaac. He is recorded back in Antwerp around 1711 where he became a member of the local Guild of Saint Luke in the same year.〔〔Théodore François Xavier van Lerius, ''De Liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, Volume 2'', Antwerp. St. Lucas gilde, N. Israel, 1961, p. 675 〕 He was employed mainly on decorative commissions.〔Reginald Howard Wilenski, ''Flemish Painters: 1430-1830'', Viking Press, 1960, p. 356-362〕 He joined in 1716 the Antwerp Confrerie of Romanists when it was reconstituted on purely religious grounds. It was a condition of membership of the Confrerie that the member had visited Rome. He and Jan Pieter van Bredael the Younger were the last artists to become members of the Confrerie.〔''Bulletin et annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique'', Volume 70, Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, Chez Froment, 1922, p. 421 〕 In 1723 he became the dean of the Confrerie. The date and place of his death are not known.〔 He had many pupils in Prague and in Antwerp, the most prominent of whom was Marten Jozef Geeraerts.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abraham Godijn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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