Theodor Roos (born 1638 in Wesel, died 1698) was a German Baroque painter of historical scenes.
Biography
His
family left their home in the Palatinate c. 1637, fleeing the Thirty
Years War, and moved to Amsterdam around 1640. There, Roos trained with
his brother Johann Heinrich Roos during the years (1647–51) in history
painting with Guilliam Dujardin (1597–after 1647), in landscape with
Cornelis de Bie and in portraiture with Barent Graat.
The
brothers returned with the rest of the family to Germany in 1653, where
they worked for a monastery in Mainz. When Johann left, Theodor Roos
won a commission to paint the civic guard in Mannheim. The painting was
displayed in the city hall. This painting won him the favor of Charles
I Louis, Elector Palatine, whose wedding portraits he painted in return
for a golden necklace with a commemorative coin. Thereafter he painted
in Strassbourg, Hof van Velde, van Birkenfelt, Bade, Hanau, and Hof van
Wirtenburg. In Strassbourg he was granted amnesty when the city was
taken by the French, because of his long history of painting military
heroes.
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