Allegory of Africa (from the Continents Cycle)
at Liechtenstein Museum
Jan Boeckhorst
Flemish1605–1668Flemish Baroque painting
About
Jan Boeckhorst or Johann Bockhorst was a German-born Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman who worked most of his career in Antwerp. He was a versatile artist who produced history paintings, genre scenes and portraits in a style influenced by the trio of leading Antwerp painters Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. Boeckhorst also worked as a designer of cartoons for tapestries.
Notable works
The Five Foolish Virgins
at Liechtenstein Museum
Alexandre coupant le nœud gordien
at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
The Triumphant Christ Forgiving Repentant Sinners
at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Mary Magdalene
at Walters Art Museum
The Snyders Triptych
at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Apollo and Python
at Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes (detail).
at National Museum in Warsaw
Esther before Ahasuerus
at Fitzwilliam Museum
Le martyre de saint Maurice et de ses compagnons
at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Works in the collection
10 works
Allegory of Africa (from the Continents Cycle)
at Liechtenstein Museum
The Five Foolish Virgins
at Liechtenstein Museum
Alexandre coupant le nœud gordien
at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
The Triumphant Christ Forgiving Repentant Sinners
at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Mary Magdalene
at Walters Art Museum
The Snyders Triptych
at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Apollo and Python
at Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes (detail).
at National Museum in Warsaw
Esther before Ahasuerus
at Fitzwilliam Museum
Le martyre de saint Maurice et de ses compagnons
at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
More by Jan Boeckhorst in institutions
Liechtenstein Museum
Vienna, Austria
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Lille, France
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, United Kingdom
National Museum in Warsaw
Śródmieście, Poland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, United States
Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
Ghent, Belgium
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland Region, New Zealand
