Carel Fabritius - List of works

Painter, born in Beemster, The Netherlands. He studied under Rembrandt, and from c.1650 lived mainly in Delft, where he was killed in an explosion. Vermeer was much influenced by Fabritius's sensitive experiments in composition and the painting of light as in the tiny ‘View of Delft’ (1652, National Gallery, London).

Fabritius was born in the ten-year old Beemster polder, where he is thought to have worked as a carpenter. In the early 1640s he studied at Rembrandt's studio in Amsterdam, along with his brother Barent Fabritius.

Of all Rembrandt's pupils, Fabritius was the only one to develop his own artistic style.

Fabritius was also interested in complex spatial effects, as can be seen in the exaggerated perspective of A View in Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall (1652).

List of works

1640 Abraham de Potter, oil on canvas, 68.5 x 57 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ca. 1640 The Beheading of John the Baptist, oil on canvas, 149 x 121 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1643 The Raising of Lazarus, oil on canvas, Polish National Museum in Warsaw 1643/45 Hagar and the Angel, oil on canvas, 157.5 x 136 cm, Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1645 - 47 Mercury and Aglauros oil on canvas, 72.4 x 91.1 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1646 Portrait of an old man, oil on board, musée du Louvre 1646 - 1651 A Girl with a Broom, oil on canvas, 107.3 x 91.4 cm, signed as Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C 1650 Self-portrait, oil on board, 65 x 49 cm, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 1652 A View of Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall, oil on canvas on pane, 15.4 x 31.6 cm, National Gallery London Fabritius A View of Delft (1652) exploring an exaggerated perspective 1654 The Goldfinch, oil on panel, Mauritshuis The Hauge 1654 The Sentry, oil on canvas, 68 x 58 cm, Art Museum of Schwerin Schwerin 1654 Young Man in a Fur Cap, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 61.5 cm, National Gallery London (probably a self-portrait)