Jan van Belcamp
Jan van Belcamp (1610–1653) was a Flemish painter and copyist, active in England.
Life
He was born in
His paintings of
Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire.[4]
The "Great Picture" (1648; now in Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal), a triptych showing the family of Lady Anne Clifford, which was formerly in Appleby Castle, has been attributed to van Belcamp. Many of the individuals shown were portrayed posthumously, using earlier portraits for reference.[5]
In 1649, following the execution of Charles I, Belcamp was appointed to the commission set up to sell the king's goods.[4] Belcamp died in London;[1] Symonds noted that he was recently dead in 1653.[4]
References
- ^ a b c Bryan 1886
- ISBN 9780521842327.
- ^ "A view of Greenwich". Royal Collection. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ a b c Walpole, Horace (1849). Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists, Volume II. London: Henry G. Bohn. pp. 359 60.
- ^ "The Great Picture". Abbot Hall Art Gallery. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Belkamp, Jan van". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.- Belkamp, Jan van at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
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