Gabriel Metsu. Gabriël Metsu was a Dutch painter of history paintings, still lifes, portraits, and genre works.
He was a highly eclectic artist, who did not adhere to a consistent style, technique, or one type of subject for long periods. Only 14 of his 133 works are dated.
Gabriel Metsu was the son of Jacques Metsu a tapestry worker and painter originally from Hainault, who lived most of his days at Leiden, and Jacquemijntje Garniers, the widow of a painter with three children of her own. It is not known when and where Gabriel was baptized; most likely in a Catholic hidden church but the baptismal records did not survive.
Gabriel grew up on Lange Mare and his stepfather, a skipper, must have supported his education, because his mother was a poor midwife. In 1648 Metsu was registered among the first members of the painters' guild at Leiden.
In 1650 he ceased to subscribe. Metsu was possibly trained in Utrecht by the Catholic painters Nicolaus Knüpfer and Jan Weenix. Around 1655 Metsu moved to Amsterdam; he lived in an alley on Prinsengracht, next to a brewery and near his relatives, the children of the sugar refiner Philips Metsu. In 1657 he got into an argument with a neighbor. Gabriel moved to a house on the canal side, where a daily vegetable market was held. In 1658 he married Isabella de Wolff, whose father was a potter and mother the painter Maria de Grebber. At the onset of the 1660s M
He was a highly eclectic artist, who did not adhere to a consistent style, technique, or one type of subject for long periods. Only 14 of his 133 works are dated.
Gabriel Metsu was the son of Jacques Metsu a tapestry worker and painter originally from Hainault, who lived most of his days at Leiden, and Jacquemijntje Garniers, the widow of a painter with three children of her own. It is not known when and where Gabriel was baptized; most likely in a Catholic hidden church but the baptismal records did not survive.
Gabriel grew up on Lange Mare and his stepfather, a skipper, must have supported his education, because his mother was a poor midwife. In 1648 Metsu was registered among the first members of the painters' guild at Leiden.
In 1650 he ceased to subscribe. Metsu was possibly trained in Utrecht by the Catholic painters Nicolaus Knüpfer and Jan Weenix. Around 1655 Metsu moved to Amsterdam; he lived in an alley on Prinsengracht, next to a brewery and near his relatives, the children of the sugar refiner Philips Metsu. In 1657 he got into an argument with a neighbor. Gabriel moved to a house on the canal side, where a daily vegetable market was held. In 1658 he married Isabella de Wolff, whose father was a potter and mother the painter Maria de Grebber. At the onset of the 1660s M
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