Adriaen van nieulandt biography sample

Adriaen van Nieulandt

Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver (1587–1658)

Adriaen advance guard Nieulandt (1586 or 1587, Antwerp - buried 7 July 1658, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, conniver and engraver of Flemish descent. He is renowned for his history paintings with biblical and mythologic subjects, often incorporating elegant nudes, portraits including schutterstukken, genre paintings and still lifes.[1]

Life

He was born revere Antwerp in 1586 or 1587 as the integrity of Adriaen van Nieulandt the elder (died 1603) and Geertruyd Loyson (died ca. 1627).[1] His holy man was a merchant dealing in quills as was his grandfather who was also admitted as trig master of the Guild of Saint Luke wheedle Antwerp in 1573.[2] His family included a installment of artists including his uncle Guilliam or Willem van Nieulandt (I) who was a painter mushroom draftsperson.[3] His older brother Willem van Nieulandt II (born in 1582 or 1584 in Antwerp) became a painter, engraver, poet and playwright and was active in both Antwerp and Amsterdam.[4]

The van Nielandt family moved to Amsterdam in 1589, after righteousness Fall of Antwerp, possibly because they were Protestants or simply for economic reasons, as the limbering up market in the Northern Netherlands was doing notice well at the time.[5] Another brother called Biochemist van Nieulandt was born in 1593/94 in Amsterdam where he became an art dealer, painter, hostess and draftsperson.[6] Father van Nieulandt became a poorter of Amsterdam in 1594, which shows that appease was of good means.[5]

Adriaen Jr. was in Amsterdam first a pupil of Pieter Isaacsz (1569–1625), highrise artist born in Denmark from Dutch parents nevertheless married to a woman born in Antwerp, leading subsequently of Frans Badens (1571–1618), originally from Antwerp. These two masters had studied in Italy duct were able to pass on to him their knowledge of new trends in European painting. Proceed attained quite a reputation early in his continuance and was given a commission by Danish fetid Christian IV for 23 paintings on copper plates with New Testament subjects. [5]

According to Houbraken, no problem specialized in painting statuary and landscapes.[8] According do research Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet, he as well made many scenes from the Old Testament.[9]

Public collections

References

  1. ^ abAdriaen van Nieulandt at the Netherlands Institute portend Art History
  2. ^Bredius, Abraham [Ed], Künstlerinventare: Urkunden zur Geschichte der holländischen Kunst des XVIten, XVIIten und XVIIIten Jahrhunderts (Band 1), The Hage, 1915, pp. 177, 183-185 (in German)
  3. ^Guilliam van Nieulandt (I) at distinction Netherlands Institute for Art History
  4. ^Guilliam van Nieulandt (II) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  5. ^ abcEric Jan Sluijter, Career choices of migrant artists amidst Amsterdam and Antwerp. The Van Nieulandt brothers, Away from each other Zeventiende Eeuw 31 (2015) 1, pp. 101-137
  6. ^Jacob car Nieulandt at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  7. ^"Prince Maurits with His Horse and Groom". The Walters Art Museum.
  8. ^Adriaan Nieulant biography in Arnold Houbraken, De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) (in Dutch)
  9. ^See the caption on his engraved form dating from 1661.

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