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          Jacobus Vrel imbues his interiors with an unpretentious clarity.

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        3. Jacobus Vrel, whose strange and sometimes hauntingly empty paintings will be the subject of an upcoming (first monographic Vrel) exhibition @pinakotheken.
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          Woman at the Hearth

          Jacobus Vrel
          1654 to 1662
          Oil on panel, 36 x 27.5 cm.
          Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

          Jacobus VREL
          working, probably in Delft, 1654–1662

          Of all the minor Dutch painters of the seventeenth century Vrel is one of the most enigmatic The location of his activity can only be surmised through searching far the possible sources of his style, and there is a general agreement that this was probably Delft, although there is no record of him in the town.

          His few dated pictures range from 1654 to 1662.

          Vrel concentrated on two distinctly different types of painting. Half of his pictures -depict rather bare interiors painted in the manner of Pieter Janssens or Pieter de Hooch.

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          He liked to paint bare walls in a manner reminiscent of Vermeer. The other half of his work consists of street scenes where the houses tend to be seen frontally, as in Vermeer's Little Street in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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