Valentin de Boulogne
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Valentin de Boulogne, sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style.
Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats), c. 1618–1620, by Valentin de Boulogne.
Fortune-teller with Soldiers
St. John and Jesus at the Last Supper (detail), 1625–1626
St John the Baptist in the Desert
Bentvueghels
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The Bentvueghels were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent.
Anonymous, ca 1660, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Initiation of a Bentvueghel in Rome, where the new member receives his nickname or "Bent"
Portraits of Eleven Bentvueghels (approx. 1623). Stemming from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Anonymous drawing in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. From left to right: Joost from The Hague (bent-name Schotsen trommel), Cornelis (Poelenburgh) from Utrecht (bent-name Satier), Wouter (Crabeth) from Gou (bent-name Almanack), Tyman (Cracht) from Emster (bent-name Botterkull) and Peter from Leiden (bent-name Ram).
Bentvueghels in a Roman Tavern, by Pieter van Laer