Robrecht Holman

Robrecht Holman (1521–1579) was the 36th abbot of Dunes.[1]

Robrecht Holman
Abbot of Ten Duinen Abbey
Portrait of Robrecht Holman (1571)
Elected1568
Term ended1579
Personal details
Born1521
Sluis, County of Flanders, Habsburg Netherlands
Died29 December 1579
Bruges, County of Flanders, Habsburg Netherlands

Life

Holman was born in Sluis in 1521 and entered the Abbey of Dunes as a youth. In 1568 he was elected abbot. His abbacy was marked by the social instability arising from the opening years of the Dutch Revolt.

Christ the Saviour adored by Robert Holman

He died in Bruges on 29 December 1579 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the church of the Poor Clares.[2]

Two portraits of Holman were exhibited in the 1902 Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges.[3] Some scholars attribute these works to Gillis Claeissens.[4]

References
  1. R. De Schepper, "Robert Holman, 36e abbé des Dunes (1569-1579)", Annales de la Société d'émulation de Bruges 60-61 (1910), pp. 176-177.
  2. William Henry James Weale, Exposition des primitifs flamands et d'art ancien (Bruges, 1902), p. 119.
  3. Georges H. de Loo, Exposition de tableaux flamands des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles, exhibition catalogue (Ghent, 1902), pp. 81-82.
  4. B. Dewilde, 'Gillis Claeissens: een 'onbekende' schilder uit het zestiende-eeuws Brugge. Aanzet tot reconstructie van zijn oeuvre binnen de Claeissensgroep', Revue Belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, 78, 2009, pp. 29–67
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