page_title: Jan Carel Vierpeyl
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Carel Vierpeyl / Work
context_page_description: Jan Carel Vierpeyl or Jan Carel Vierpyl was a Flemish painter known mainly for his family portraits and genre scenes of merry and gallant companies.
context_section_description: While some 19th century art historians mention history and vanitas paintings by Vierpeyl, the currently known work of Vierpeyl consists mainly of individual and family portraits and genre scenes.
  The family portraits typically depict the larger or smaller family together with the family dog in a formal indoor setting.  The ancestors of the sitters are also included through their portraits that are hung on the back wall.  The Portrait of a Man and his Daughter dated 1721(National Gallery of Ireland) depicts a seated man with a quill in his hand. His standing teenage daughter is holding a book and is pointing to a harpsichord in the room. The lid of the harpsichord is open and the painting on the inside of the lid is in the Flemish and French tradition.  The wall behind the sitters is covered with ancestor portraits in oval frames.
  The genre works of Vierpeyl are in the style of merry companies and typically depict a group of men and woman engaged in music making, drinking, dancing and courting.  Some of the scenes depict gallant gatherings while others possibly involve courtesans or prostitutes.
  The religiously themed Exhumation of the bones of St Dymphna and St Gerebernus in the St Dymphna Church in Geel, Belgium is attributed to Vierpeyl.
  Works of Vierpeyl are in the collections of the Brukenthal National Museum, the Pushkin Museum and the National Gallery of Ireland.
caption: The concert
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