# BRAMER, Leonaert [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1596–1674 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Dutch genre and history painter, active mainly in his native Delft. He travelled widely in Italy and France, 1614-28, and drew on a variety of influences for his most characteristic paintings - small nocturnal scenes with vivid effects of light. Works such as the Scene of Sorcery \(Bordeaux\) have earned him the reputation an interesting independent who cannot easily be pigeonholed. Bramer was also one of the few Dutch artists to paint frescoes in Holland, but none of his work in the medium survived. He evidently knew well the greatest of his Delft contemporaries, Vermeer, for he came to the latter's defence when his future mother-in-law was trying to prevent him from marrying her daughter. In fact, it is likely that Bramer, rather than Carel Fabritius, was Vermeer's teacher. ## Related artworks - [Anchias Fleeing Troy with His Father and Son]() - [Christ among the Doctors]() - [Christ among the Doctors]() - [Concert of Angels \(recto\)]() - [Design for a wall decoration]() - [Figures in a Loggia]() - [Four Latin Fathers of the Church and Saints \(verso\)]() - [Jacob's Dream]() - [Joseph and Potiphar's Wife]() - [Journey of the Three Magi to Bethlehem]() - [Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Abyss on His Horse]() - [Money Combats the World, the Flesh, and the Devil]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()