Fabritius, Carel, 1622-54, Dutch painter; pupil and outstanding follower of Rembrandt. His early death in the explosion of a powder magazine at Delft cut short a career of great promise. Among his few remarkable works are Portrait of a Man (Rotterdam); The Goldfinch (The Hague); and View of Delft (National Gall., London). He is thought to have had a strong influence on Vermeer. His brother Barent Fabritius, 1624-73, worked in a similar though less accomplished manner, influenced by Maes as well as Rembrandt. Barent's portrait of the Van der Helm family (1655) is in the Rijks Museum.

(baptized Feb. 27, 1622, Middenbeemster, Neth.—died Oct. 12, 1654, Delft) Dutch painter. He studied with Rembrandt in the early 1640s, then settled in Delft, entering its painters' guild in 1652. The earliest work attributed to him, The Raising of Lazarus (circa 1645), was strongly influenced by Rembrandt, but he soon developed a personal Baroque style marked by cool colour harmonies, subtle lighting effects, and illusionistic perspective. His portraits and his genre and narrative paintings influenced Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer. All but about a dozen of his paintings were destroyed by an explosion of the Delft powder magazine, which killed him as well.

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(baptized Feb. 27, 1622, Middenbeemster, Neth.—died Oct. 12, 1654, Delft) Dutch painter. He studied with Rembrandt in the early 1640s, then settled in Delft, entering its painters' guild in 1652. The earliest work attributed to him, The Raising of Lazarus (circa 1645), was strongly influenced by Rembrandt, but he soon developed a personal Baroque style marked by cool colour harmonies, subtle lighting effects, and illusionistic perspective. His portraits and his genre and narrative paintings influenced Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer. All but about a dozen of his paintings were destroyed by an explosion of the Delft powder magazine, which killed him as well.

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Carel is a given name, and may refer to:

In artistry:

• Carel de Moor, Dutch etcher and painter
• Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils
• Carel van Mander, Flemish painter, poet and biographer
• Carel Vosmaer, Dutch poet and art-critic

In education:

• Carel Gabriel Cobet, Dutch classical scholar
• Carel van Schaik, professor and director of the Anthropological Institute and Museum at the University of Zürich, Switzerland

In other fields:

• Carel Godin de Beaufort, Formula One driver from the Netherlands
• Carel Jan Schneider, Dutch foreign service diplomat and writer
• Carel Struycken, character actor in film, television, and stage
• Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck, Dutch naval officer and naval historian
• Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist

Carel SpA is also an Italian society working in the HVAC/R market, established in 1973 and located in Brugine (Padua - Italy), specialized in the manufacturing of humidification systems and electronic controls for refrigeration and air-conditioning.