Hubertus Quellinus
Hubertus Quellinus or Hubert Quellinus (15 August 1619, Antwerp – 1687) was a Flemish printmaker, draughtsman and painter and a member of the prominent Quellinus family of artists. His engravings after the work of his brother, the Baroque sculptor Artus Quellinus the Elder, were instrumental in the spread of the Flemish Baroque idiom in Europe in the second half of the 17th century.
Life
Hubertus Quellinus was born in Antwerp on 15 August 1619 as the son of
In 1650 he traveled to Rome where he joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing nickname, the so-called 'bent name'. Hubertus was given the bent name Saracin. He witnessed that he was present when the lifeless body of Pietro Testa was the retrieved from the Tiber in 1650.[1]
He was recorded in Amsterdam in 1655. Between 18 September 1665 and 18 September 1666 he registered at the
Om 9 August 1666 he sold in Amsterdam 113 copper plates, including their 15 year patent, regarding Amsterdam City Hall to Frederik de Wit. He returned to Antwerp where he was buried on 2 March 1688. His death duties were met between 18 September 1687 and 18 September 1688.[1]
Work
Quellinus was mainly an engraver of architecture but he also made some portraits and painted some history paintings.[1]
The publication on the new City Hall of Amsterdam was published in Amsterdam in 1660 consisted of two parts: Afbeelding van 't stadt huys van Amsterdam: in dartigh coopere plaaten (Images of the City Hall of Amsterdam in 30 copper plates), by
He also engraved portraits.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Hubert Quellinus at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- ^ Jean-Pierre De Bruyn and Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart, eds., Erasmus Quellinus (1607-1678): In de voetsporen van Rubens [Cat. exh. Musée de Flandre, Cassel, April 5 – September 7, 2014.] Ghent-Kortrijk: Uitgeverij Snoeck 2014, p. 15 (in Dutch)
- ^ Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, De Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, onder Zinkspreuk: "Wy Jonsten Versaemt" afgeschreven en bemerkt door Ph. Rombouts en Th. Van Lerius, Advokaet, onder de bescherming van den raed van bestuer der koninklyke Akademie van beeldende Kunsten, van gezegde Stad, Volume 2, Antwerp, 1872, p. 362 (in Dutch)
- ^ a b Afbeelding van 't stadt huys van Amsterdam: in dartigh coopere plaaten (Images of the City Hall of Amsterdam in 30 copper plates), by Jacob van Campen & drawings by Jacob Vennekool; followed by De voornaemste statuen ende ciraten vant konstrijck stadthuys van Amstelredam, tmeeste in marmer gemaeckt door Artus Quellinus (The main statues and ornaments of the Amsterdam City Hall mostly made in marble by Artus Quellinus), Amsterdam, Frederick de Widt (or Witt), 1665.
- ^ Afbeelding van't Stadt Huys van Amsterdam… [TASMAN] CAMPEN, Jacob Van. Amsterdam: Dancker Danckerts, 1661, at Hordern House
- ^ Details of sculptural ornament by Artus Quellinus in the Courtroom of Amsterdam Town Hall: two Medusa heads and an all-seeing eye at Worcester College, Oxford
- ^ Michał Wardzyński, Flemish Trend in Schleswig-to-Königsberg Baroque Sculpture in Marble and Stone in the Second Half of the 17th Century , in: Polish Baroque, European Contexts, Proceedings of an International Seminar held at The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, June 27-28, 2011, p. 229-256
External links
- Media related to Hubertus Quellinus at Wikimedia Commons