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Carel Fabritius
Midden Beemster 1622–Delft 1654
Fabritius is generally considered Rembrandt's most gifted pupil and a painter of outstanding originality and distinction.
Carel fabritius biography of albert
He died tragically young in the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine, leaving only a tiny body of work (much may have perished in the disaster). In his youth he worked as a carpenter (his name Fabritius may have been derived from the Latin" faber" from this profession) and he was probably in Rembrandt's studio in the early 1640s.
He settled in Delft in about 1650.
Although only about a dozen paintings by him are known, they show great variety. His earliest surviving works (The Raising of Lazarus,National Museum, Warsaw, c.1645) are strongly influenced by Rembrandt, but he broke free from his master and developed a personal style marked by an exquisite feeling for cool colour harmonies and (even th