Godfried Schalcken

Godfried Schalcken (8 October 1643 – 16 November 1706) was a Dutch artist who specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Schalcken was noted for his night scenes and mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight. He painted in the highly polished style of the

Life and work

Godfried Schalcken was born in

Schalcken painted several portraits, of which the half-length of William III of England, now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is a good example.^[1]

Like Dou, Schalcken specialized in small scenes lit by candlelight, a format favored by the Leiden fijnschilders. Examples are in Buckingham Palace, the Louvre, Vienna and Dresden.^[1]

His painting, Lady, Come into the Garden (Buckingham Palace), was singled out by Schalcken's pupil and Dutch artistic biographer Arnold Houbraken as representative of his oeuvre.^{[citation needed]} Other good examples are Old Woman Scouring a Pan and Soldier Giving Money to a Woman (London, National Gallery), Ceres Seeking Proserpine and Old Man Writing (Louvre), Woman (National Museum of Serbia), Girl Blowing Out Taper (Munich), Girl Reading Letter (Dresden Gallery), The Boy Angling (Berlin); and Toilet by Candle (The Hague). The Buckingham Palace collection also possesses an interior by Schalcken. His history paintings are less-well known. His pupils were Arnold Boonen, Godefridus Callenfels, Simon Germain, Carel de Moor, Richard Morris, Arent Pijl, his cousin Jacob Schalcken, his sister Maria Schalcken, and Anthony Vreem.^[2]

• Godfried Schalcken
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  Portrait of a man
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  Portrait of Françoise van Diemen, his wife, in 1679 (marriage pendant to his selfportrait)
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  Artist and Model Looking at an Ancient Statue by Lamplight
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  Young Girl with a Candle
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  Young Girl with lemon
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  Young Girl with a Fish
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  Portrait of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, 1699.
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  Every One His Fancy c. 1670–1675.

  Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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  Pygmalion
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  William III of England

In literature

The atmospheric work of Schalcken provided the inspiration for

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References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
  New International Encyclopedia
  (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schalcken, Godfried". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 312.

Further reading

• Complete text of Sheridan Le Fanu's short story
• DeGroot, Catalogue of Dutch Painters (New York, 1913)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Godfried Schalcken.

• 40 artworks by or after Godfried Schalcken at the Art UK site
• Works and literature on Godfried Schalcken
• "Schalcken, Godfried" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.