This is Abraham Diepraam

Abraham Diepraam, or Diepraem (23 January 1622 – 16 July 1670), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Houbraken, he first learned to paint from the daddy of Dirk Stoop, who had been a great glasspainter, and later he became a pupil of Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh. After a vacation through France he returned to the Netherlands and became a pupil of Adriaen Brouwer, whose style he copied the get off of his life. He united the Guild of St. Luke in Dordrecht in 1648.

Houbraken claimed he made his acquaintance in 1674. This is somewhat hard to believe, since Diepraam died four years past that, but may tell why Houbraken had such a low opinion of him. Diepraam became a popular painter of little genre works, and sold many of these himself informally in taverns, where Houbaken usefully felt he in addition to spent everything of the proceeds on brandywine. Houbraken reports that by the subside of his sparkle he had in the same way as out of fashion and tried selling his services as a painter in imitation of his painting box door to door, with Tiny success. Houbraken’s biggest criticism of Diepraam was not therefore much his lifestyle, but from what he claimed was poor brushwork. In a rare comparison to the feint of Frans Hals, Houbraken claimed that Diepraam’s style well along in vivaciousness reflected his lifestyle, and his brush strokes did not even melt together, but were aimless lines without connection. Though Hals misused his style taking into account disconnected brush strokes during his complex years (this is what impressionist painters such as Vincent van Gogh admired the most just about him), Houbraken claims he did this as a great master of the art, while Diepraam was just drunk. Perhaps Houbraken met some drunk claiming to be Diepraam himself, and who tried to sell Diepraam paintings after his death in 1674. This would explain why Houbraken formed his bad opinion, since subsequently many of his contemporaries, Diepraam fell upon hard times later than the economic downturn spoiled the market.

According to the RKD his pupil was Matthijs Wulfraet. His paintings were quite popular, and are generally little interior tavern scenes with peasants drinking or smoking. Houbraken was much more complimentary on top of Diepraam in his biography of his pupil Wulfraet, claiming his works sold with ease in Arnhem and he was a good teacher for the youngster boy.

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