Jacobus Vrel

Jacobus Vrel (active around 1654–1662) was probably a Dutch, Flemish or Westphalian painter of interiors and street scenes.

Probably of Flemish or Westphalian origin, he mainly worked in Holland. His pictures are characterized by subtle colors and exude a modest restraint and silence. Many of his pictures used to be considered the work of Jan Vermeer van Delft, Pieter de Hooch , Pieter Janssens or Isaac Koedijck . Pictures by Jacobus Vrel are very rare.

Selected Works

• Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum (city view, woman at the stove)
• Berlin, private collection (A quiet alley)
• Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts (Dutch interior)
• Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (interior with old woman)
• Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum (street scene, The Little Nurse)
• Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (interior with woman at the stove)
• New York, private collection (street scene with a bakery, street scene with six figures, street scene with two strollers, street scene with entertainment)
• Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (The Little Nurse)
• San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art (The Little Nurse)
• Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (woman at the window)
• Worms, Heylshof (two female cottagers in conversation)

literature

• Vrel, Jacobus. In: Alfred von Wurzbach : Dutch Artist Lexicon. Volume 2: L-Z. Halm and Goldmann, Vienna and Leipzig 1910, pp. 825–826 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Vrel, Jacobus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 570 .