page_title: Victor Wolfvoet (II)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Victor Wolfvoet (II) / Life
context_page_description: Victor Wolfvoet (II) or Victor Wolfvoet the Younger, was a Flemish art dealer and painter of history and allegorical paintings. His artistic output was heavily influenced by Peter Paul Rubens.
context_section_description: Victor Wolfvoet the Younger was born in Antwerp as the son of Victor Wolfvoet the Elder, a painter and art dealer, and Brigitta Voorwercx.  His father was probably his teacher.  He became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke around 1644-5. Some sources refer to Wolfvoet as a pupil of Rubens.
  He married in 1636.  His 1652 will, which he made not long before his death, states that he was the widower of Elisabeth Mertens.  Victor Wolfvoet died in Antwerp on 23 October 1652 leaving one daughter, Livina Wolfvoet.
  The artist's estate comprised a substantial collection of artworks of seven hundred items.  The inventory of his estate lists twenty sketches by Rubens, including several designs for the ceilings of the Carolus Borromeus Church in Antwerp and six bozzetti for the Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series.  There are also sketches by other artists, many unattributed sketches and framed grisailles, and a number of sketches after Rubens.  Some of the sketches were likely in Wolfvoet's own hand, like his copies after Rubens' Abraham and Melchizedek and Manna from Heaven both now in the Mauritshuis, The Hague.  The large collection of works has been regarded as evidence that the artist may also have been active as an art dealer.
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