STOM, Matthias

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STOM, Matthias

Dutch painter

(b. ca. 1600, Amersfoort, d. after 1650, Sicily)

 

 Matthias Stom (Stomer), Dutch painter, active in Italy.

A document was discovered that firmly located Stom's birth in Amersfoort,

but his family could have come from the southern Netherlands

where the name Stom is fairly common.

 

Although he is referred to as Stomer in art-historical literature,

his few signed pictures bear some form of the name Stom,

which form also appears in the few documents concerning the artist.

It is often stated that he was a student of Gerrit van Honthorst in Utrecht,

but this is unlikely since Stom must have started his training before 1620,

the year in which van Honthorst returned from Italy.

 목동들의 경배 [Adoration des bergers]

 

Matthias Stom traveled to Rome

where he belonged to an important group of Caravaggisti

(followers of Caravaggio) active there in the early seventeenth century.

Like Caravaggio, they ranked naturalism and drama high in their pictorial subjects.

He had established himself in the Eternal City by 1630.

Later documents, such as the 1648 inventory of the collection of Don Antonio Ruffo,

duke of Messina, place Stomer in Sicily,

where he seems to have moved permanently sometime after 1632,

following a stay of undetermined length in Naples.

 

The hallmark of Stom's art is his personal interpretation of the Caravaggesque idiom.

This stylistic vocabulary, learned initially from the Northern followers of Caravaggio

and then experienced firsthand in Rome, was further enhanced by Stom's access

to the later works of Caravaggio decorating churches in Naples and Sicily.

 

Of Stom's surviving works on ly the Saint Isidore Agricola of 1641,

formerly in the church of Caccamo near Palermo, is securely dated.

Consequently, the chronology of his paintings has been established largely

on the basis of their internal evidence.

 

 

Sarah Leading Hagar to Abraham
1637-39
Oil on canvas, 113 x 168 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

 

 

Young Man Reading by Candlelight
1628-32
Oil on canvas, 59 x 74 cm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

 

 

 

Esau and Jacob
1640s
Oil on canvas, 118 x 164 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

 

 

 

St Gregory
-
Oil on canvas
�ffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel

 

 

 

St Ambrose
-
Oil on canvas
�ffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel

 

 

 

The Incredulity of St Thomas
c. 1620
Oil on canvas, 125 x 99 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

 

 

 

The Lutenist and the Flautist
1640s
Oil on canvas, 90 x 79 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

 

 

 

The Evangelists St Mark and St Luke
c. 1635
Oil on canvas, 113 x 154 cm
Private collection

 

 

 

 

Old Woman Praying
1640s
Oil on canvas, 78 x 64 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

 

 

Old Woman Holding a Purse by Candlelight
-
Oil on canvas, 62 x 48 cm
Private collection

 

 

 

 

Old Woman with a Candle
1640s
Oil on canvas, 85 x 71 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

 

 

 

St Peter Praying
-
Oil on canvas
Private collection

 

 

 

 

Samson and Delilah
1630s
Oil on canvas, 99 x 125 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

 

 

 

 

Saul and the Witch of Endor
c. 1635
Oil on canvas, 170 x 250 cm
Private collection