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{{Short description|German-Hungarian Baroque painter}}
[[File:Henriette Luise von Württemberg (aka).jpg|thumb|right|Benjamin Block, ''Portrait of Henriette Luise von Württemberg'', 1643]]
[[File:Benjamin von Block 001.jpg|thumb|Leopold I, by Block, in 1672]]

'''Benjamin Block''' or '''Blok''' (1631–1690) was a seventeenth-century [[Germany|German]]-[[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Baroque]] [[Painting|painter]] who married the flower painter [[Anna Katharina Block]]. He is known for his portrait paintings.

==Biography==

Block was born into an artistic family in [[Lübeck]];<ref name=RKD>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/9089 Benjamin von Block] in the [[RKD]]</ref> his father [[Daniel Blok]]<ref>[http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.asfaszosaction=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=346083 Daniel Block]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in the [[RKD]]</ref> and brothers Emanuel and Adolf were painters.<ref>[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0286.htm Benjamin Blok biography] in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by [[Arnold Houbraken]], courtesy of the [[Digital library for Dutch literature]]</ref> In 1653 he was registered in [[Halle, Belgium|Halle, Spanish Netherlands]],<ref name=RKD /> probably en route to Italy, and in 1655, through one of his brothers, who was a canon in [[Vienna]] at the time, he met [[Ferenc Nádasdy III]] who invited him to produce art in [[Hungary]]. He is registered in Hungary from 1656 to 1659.<ref name=RKD />

After working as a portrait painter in [[Siena]], [[Florence]] and [[Venice]], in 1664 Block crossed the alps back to his native [[Germany]], and settled in [[Nuremberg]], where he married the daughter of the flower painter [[Johann Thomas Fischer]] (1603–1685),<ref>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/238742 Johann Thomas Fischer] in the [[RKD]]</ref> the flower painter [[Anna Catharina Fischer]].<ref>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/238729 Anna Katharina Block] in the [[RKD]]</ref> There he made portraits for the margraves of Ansbach and the [[Vienna]] court until 1670. He was knighted by [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]] in 1684.<ref name=RKD />

His wife remained a painter after her marriage, and along with their parents, this duo is mentioned in the artist biographies of [[Joachim von Sandrart]] and [[Arnold Houbraken]]. He died in [[Regensburg]] in 1690.

==References==
{{commons category|Benjamin von Block}}
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==External links and sources==
*[http://www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/b/block/index.html Fine Arts in Hungary]

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[[Category:Artists from Lübeck]]
[[Category:Painters from Schleswig-Holstein]]
[[Category:German Baroque painters]]
[[Category:17th-century German painters]]

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