Abraham van Calraet, or Kalraat (7–12 October 1642, Dordrecht – 11 June 1722, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
He college to paint from AEmilius and Samuel Hup, or Huppe, who were with ease known sculptors in the city of Dordrecht. After learning to sculpt, young Abraham took to the painter’s brush, and started upon fruit, while helping his father, who was a wood sculptor.
He resided throughout his vibrancy in Dordrecht, and may have been a pupil of Aelbert Cuyp, who was a generation older. Cuyp’s signature was often forged on top of Calraet’s paintings.
Abraham Bredius was responsible for the first “rediscovery” of this painter, re-attributing two of his yet life paintings that at that epoch were considered to be by Cuyp. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot strongly disagreed bearing in mind him and the Cuyp-Calraet question was escalated in the Dutch newspapers after Frits Lugt announced a supplementary Abraham Calraet painting in the Frans Hals Museum in 1915. Bredius “won” the ruckus and many of his attributions yet stand today.
Calraet is known today for yet life pieces considering fruit, and recently as well as for landscapes as soon as horses. He was the scholarly of his younger brother, the landscape painter Barent van Kalraet.
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