Carel Fabritius

Born in 1622 in Middenbeemster, Netherlands, he was the son of a painter and teacher, and his two brothers also became painters.¹

In the early 1640s, he studied at Rembrandt's studio in Amsterdam, becoming one of his most talented pupils.¹

He experimented with perspective and lighting, using exaggerated perspective to create complex spatial effects in 'A View of Delft'.¹

He moved to Delft in the early 1650s and joined the painters' guild in 1652, becoming a key figure of the Delft School.¹

Due to the explosion, only about a dozen of his paintings have survived, making his extant oeuvre extremely rare.¹

He showed excellent control of a heavily loaded brush, a technique prominently displayed in his 1654 masterpiece 'The Goldfinch'.¹

He died at age 32 in the 1654 Delft gunpowder magazine explosion, which destroyed his studio and many of his paintings.¹