A framed painting by Carel Fabritius entitled "The Goldfinch".

Carel Fabritius (27 February 1622 to 12 October 1654) was a Dutch painter. He was a pupil of Rembrandt and worked in his studio in Amsterdam. Fabritius, who was a member of the Delft School, developed his own artistic style and experimented with perspective and lighting. Initially he worked as a carpenter. In the early 1640s he studied at Rembrandts studio in Amsterdam, along with his brother Barent. In the early 1650s he moved to Delft, and joined the Delft painters guild in 1652. Fabritius died young, caught in the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine on October 12, 1654, which destroyed a quarter of the city, along with his studio and many of his paintings. Only about a dozen paintings have survived.