The raid - Sebastiaen Vrancx (Antwerp 1573 - 1647)

Oil on copper

We'd like to thank dr. Joost Vander Auwera for his advice, he dates the work circa 1608.


Sebastiaen Vrancx was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and designer of prints, mainly known for his battle scenes. A genre that he pioneered in the Netherlandish painting.
He also created landscapes with mythological and allegorical scenes, scenes with robbers, village scenes and celebrations in cities. He was a gifted figure painter who was regularly invited to paint the staffage in compositions of fellow painters. As an active member of a local chamber of rhetoric, he wrote comedies and a number of poems. He was further captain of the Antwerp civil militia (schutterij).