Decorators Flanders
Balthasar Beschey
Antwerp 20.11.1708 — Antwerp 1776
Balthasar Beschey was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and decorative painter of interiors. He started his career as landscape painter but later on switched to history and portrait painting. Balthasar Beschey painted single as well as group portraits. He also produced a number of genre paintings. He often followed and even copied the work of Rubens and van Dyck in his history paintings and that of Jan Brueghel the Elder in his landscapes. He played a prominent role in the development of the Academy of Arts in Antwerp and as a teacher. Beschey is sometimes recognized for his signature style of using a checkered floor.
1708–1776
Frans Breydel
Antwerp 08.09.1679 — Antwerp 24.11.1750
Frans Breydel or Frans Breydel I was a Flemish painter, draftsman and decorative painter (of interiors). He is known for his merry companies, carnival scenes, landscapes and battle pieces. He first specialised in portraits but changed to merry companies, a genre which was very popular in France at the time.
1679–1750
Jacob Leyssens
Antwerp 1661 — Antwerp 1710
Jacob Leyssens / Lyssens was a Flemish painter and decorator. After training in Antwerp, he spent a long time in Rome. After his return to Antwerp, he was active as a painter and decorator and collaborated with prominent Antwerp still life painters such as Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Younger and Jan Baptist Bosschaert. He became a member of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. Only a few of his works are known, one of which is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. He decorated many rooms and ceilings in prominent residences and buildings in Antwerp. He is known to have collaborated as a staffage painter with other artists.
1661–1710
