# Balthasar Paul Ommeganck artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1755-12-26
- Death date: 1826-01-18
- Nationality: Flemish
- Movements: Flemish landscape painting revival, late 18th–early 19th century
- Common media: oil painting, drawing

## About Balthasar Paul Ommeganck

Balthasar Paul Ommeganck (1755–1826) was a Flemish painter, draftsperson, and guildmaster active in Antwerp. He is best known for landscape and animal paintings that helped revitalize naturalistic landscape traditions in the Low Countries during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Beyond his own artistic output, Ommeganck played an institutional role as an art teacher and a founder of art organizations in Antwerp, shaping a generation of painters. His daughter, Johanna Maria Ommeganck, followed him as an animal painter. With over 200 lots recorded at auction, his works appear regularly in Old Master and 19th-century European art sales.

## Common works and media

Ommeganck's output consists primarily of oil paintings and drawings depicting pastoral landscapes with livestock and other animals. Works are typically executed in oil on canvas or panel, with smaller-scale drawings also appearing at auction. Subjects frequently feature sheep, cattle, and rural scenery rendered in a naturalistic Flemish tradition. Signatures may appear as 'P.B. Ommeganck' rather than the full name.

## Market and appraisal context

Ommeganck's works surface most often in Old Master Paintings, Old Master Drawings, and 19th Century European Art auction categories. Collectors evaluating his paintings should consider medium (oil on canvas or panel versus works on paper), subject matter, condition relative to age, and documented provenance. Attribution can be complicated by the family connection to his daughter Johanna Maria Ommeganck, who painted similar animal subjects. Comparable auction records from major houses provide the most reliable price context for individual works.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from authority files and institutional records with auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Balthasar Paul Ommeganck, identity data is grounded in the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/60553
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008824
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/9508493/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2198269
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_Paul_Ommeganck
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002025830