ECARTICO
Linking cultural industries in the early modern Low Countries, ca. 1475 - ca. 1725

Lorenzo a Castro

Portrait
Name:Lorenzo a Castro
Name variants:Laureys / Laurentius
Gender:male
Born:Antwerpen baptized on
Died:Engeland circa
Father:Sebastian a Castro (? - ?)
Mother:Anna Wuijlens (? - ca. 1660)

Occupation:

Occupational addresses:

Attributes

Category Attribute Value Date startDate end
Subject of painting Marineschepen
Subject of painting Marinezeegezichten

Relations

Relation Modifier Date startDate end
Education and training
pupil of Sebastian a Castro, alias: Sebastianus de Kestercertain

References

External biographical records

Primary sources

  1. FelixArchief, Antwerpen: Parochie Sint Joris
  2. Rombouts, Ph. & Van Lerius, Th., De Liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde onder de zinspreuk: Wt ionsten versaemt (2 vols.), Antwerpen: Baggerman; ’s Gravenhage: Nijhoff (1864-1876), volume 1: 356 & 360

Secondary sources

  1. Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008)
  2. Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Band 6, Leipzig: Engelmann (1912)
  3. Meißner, Günter, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Teil 17, München-Leipzig: Saur (1997), 261
  4. Preston, Rupert, The seventeenth century marine painters of the Netherlands, Leigh-on-Sea: Lewis (1974)