Daniel Soreau

Daniel Soreau (c.1554 28 March 1619) was a wool trader and still life painter from the Southern Netherlands who was active in Frankfurt.

Scene of Cimon and Pero in prison, engraving after Daniel Soreau

Biography

Soreau was born in Tournai in 1554. He became a citizen of Frankfurt in 1586. He married Johanna Flamen. He inherited a wool trading company from his father Johann Soreau. He ran this company together with his brother Simon Soreau and his brother-in-law Stefan van Ninhoven, but could not prevent its bankruptcy in 1601. At times, the company had controlled the entire wool trade of Hesse and Wetterau.[1]

The painter and biographer Joachim von Sandrart wrote in his Teutsche Academie that Soreau became a painter at a more advanced age than usual.[2] His pupils were his twin sons Isaak and Pieter, Francesco Codino, Sebastian Stoskopff and Joachim von Sandrart. Soreau died only a year after Sandrart became his pupil in 1618.[3]

After Soreau died at Frankfurt, his workshop was taken over by Stoskopff, who had been his pupil from 1615.[3]

Work

Sandrart stated that Soreau was good at painting "stillstehenden Sachen" (stationary subjects, probably meaning still lifes).[2] No paintings by Soreau are known to date. However, there are engravings after Soreau by Johann Jenet, which are of subjects other than still lifes. A still life with a fruit basket has been attributed to him a few times, but without sufficient documentation. It is now believed to be by Jacob van Hulsdonck, who influenced Isaak Soreau.

References

  1. Gerhard Bott: Der Stillebenmaler Daniel Soreau und seine Schule in: Kurt Wettengl: Georg Flegel (1566 - 1638), Stilleben : [Publikation zur Ausstellung "Georg Flegel (1566 - 1638), Stilleben" des Historischen Museums Frankfurt am Main in Zusammenarbeit mit der Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt vom 18. Dezember bis 13. Februar 1994]. Hatje, Stuttgart 1993, p. 113
  2. Daniel Soreau in Sandrart's Teutsche Academie
  3. Daniel Soreau in the RKD
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