# Jan Frans van Bloemen artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1662-05-12
- Death date: 1749-06-13
- Nationality: Flemish, Italian
- Movements: Classical landscape tradition, Roman Baroque
- Common media: oil on canvas, printmaking, drawing

## About Jan Frans van Bloemen

Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662–1749), known by his Italian bent-name Orizzonte, was a Flemish painter, draftsman, and printmaker who spent most of his career in Rome. Born in Antwerp and christened on 12 May 1662, he was the younger brother of Pieter van Bloemen and the older brother of Norbert van Bloemen, both also painters. After training in Antwerp, van Bloemen settled in Rome by the late 1680s, where he married Mattia Rosa Barosini in 1693 and remained until his death on 13 June 1749. He became the leading painter of vedute — panoramic views — of the Roman campagna, working within the classical landscape tradition shaped by Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. His idealized compositions of the hills, ruins, and pastoral scenery around Rome made him a sought-after artist among Grand Tour travelers and Roman patrons.

## Common works and media

Van Bloemen is best known for oil-on-canvas landscapes of the Roman campagna featuring rolling hills, ancient ruins, pastoral figures, and distant views of city landmarks. He also produced landscape drawings in pen, ink, and wash, as well as etchings. Common subjects include idealized classical landscapes with mythological or biblical staffage, views of Tivoli and the Roman countryside, and architectural capricci. Works range from small cabinet paintings to large decorative canvases.

## Market and appraisal context

Jan Frans van Bloemen's works appear regularly in the Old Master painting, drawing, and print categories at major auction houses. Finished oil landscapes depicting the Roman countryside are the most sought-after format. Value depends on attribution confidence (workshop and follower copies are common), condition of the 18th-century support, provenance quality (especially connections to Roman or Grand Tour collections), subject matter, and size. With 350 recorded auction appearances, the artist has a measurable but specialized market. Collectors should verify attribution carefully, as the large output from his long Roman workshop means many works carry qualified attributions.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from authority files and scholarly sources with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lot data when those records are available. For Jan Frans van Bloemen, identity data is drawn from 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/9134
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568575
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027022
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/54417865/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Frans_van_Bloemen