Rombout Verhulst
Rombout Verhulst (15 January 1624 – buried 27 November 1698) was a
Life
Rombout Verhulst was born in Mechelen, where he studied with the sculptors Rombout Verstappen en Frans van Loo and possibly also Lucas Faydherbe, a prominent sculptor and architect from Mechelen.[2][3] It is assumed that between 1646 and 1654 he made a trip to Italy.[4]
In 1646 he moved to
In 1663, Verhulst worked in Leiden as an independent master and completed works on municipal buildings and his first funeral monuments.[2] He then moved to The Hague around 1664 and built a network of private patrons in which the van Reygersbergh family played a pivotal role. In 1663 Verhulst completed a funeral monument for Maria van Reygersbergh in the church of Katwijk-Binnen. This was the first private commission for this type of work in the second half of the 17th century. His patronage shifted gradually from Amsterdam to The Hague.[9]
He died, aged 74, in The Hague.
He was the teacher of Jan Blommendael and Jan Ebbelaer.[4]
Work
Rombout Verhulst is best known for his many tomb monuments, but he made also portrait busts, garden sculptures and small-scale works in ivory.
His portrait oeuvre is rather small, which demonstrates that there was only a limited market for portrait sculptures in the Dutch Republic.
Verhulst is mainly remembered for this many tomb monuments for private and public patrons. His funeral monument for Maria van Reygersbergh of 1663 established his reputation in this area with its new and imposing style. He made many church monuments erected to commemorate Dutch naval heroes.
In addition to the monumental commissions he completed, Verhulst made small-scale ivory carvings, a specialty for which his home town Mechelen was particularly known. A small ivory Virgin and Child held in the Rijksmuseum shows his skill in this regard. He has carved the thick, wavy locks of hair of the chubby Christ Child and the heavy drapery with such realism that they appear almost tangible.[1]
Although his style was indebted to Artus Quellinus, he did not completely adopt Quellinus' classicist tendencies. Verhulst's work is warmer in conception and executed with greater refinement and therein resembles more that of the Antwerp sculptors from the circle of Peter Paul Rubens, including Johannes van Mildert and Lucas Faydherbe.[3] His work was usually more realistic than that of Quellinus and is less dramatic.[9]
Selected works
- "Amsterdam city hall in Amsterdam
- Decorated tomb of Jan van Galen (About 1655), the New Church in Amsterdam. The design is by Artus Quellinus, the sea-battle scene is by Willem de Keyser.
- The tomb of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (Completed 1656), the Oude Kerk in Delft. The design is probably by Jacob van Campenand the sea-battle scene by Willem de Keyser.
- Sculpture on the facade of the Waag (1657), Leiden
- Relief representing the plague house in Leiden
- Epitaph for Pieter van der Werff (1661), Hooglandse Church, Leiden
- A lion above the gate at the base of the Burcht at Leiden (1662)
- Tomb of Willem van Lyere and Maria van Reigersberch, Dorpskerk at Katwijk aan den Rijn
- Tomb for Johan Polyander Kerkhoven (1663), Pieterskerk, Leiden
- Tomb of Carel Hieronymus van In- and Kniphuisen (1665–69) in the church at Midwolde
- Epitaph for Hendrick Thibaut and his wife and daughter (1669) in the church of Aagtekerke
- Epitaph for Willem van der Zaen(1670) in Amsterdam
- Epitaph for Grote Kerk at the Hague
- Epitaph for Johannes of Gheel (ca. 1670), church at Spanbroek
- Tomb for Adriaan Clant (1672), church at Stedum
- Epitaph for Oude Kerkat Amsterdam
- Tomb monument of Hieronymus Hieronymus van Tuyll van Serooskerken (ca. 1675), church at Stavenisse
- Tomb of Utrecht.
- Tomb of Michiel de Ruyter (completed 1681), Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam
- Tomb monument for Johan and Cornelis Evertsen (1680–82), Wandelkerk in Middelburg
References
- ^ a b Rombout Verhulst, Virgin and Child at the Rijksmuseum
- ^ a b "Rombout Verhulst". at the Rijksmuseum.
- ^ a b c Cynthia Lawrence. "Verhulst, Rombout." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 5 July 2021.
- ^ a b Rombout Verhulst at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
- ^ Helena Bussers, De baroksculptuur en het barok at Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen (in Dutch)
- ^ Geoffrey Beard. "Gibbons, Grinling." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. Accessed 5 July 2021
- ^ Nicolas Millich at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
- ^ a b Sheila D. Muller, Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 4 July 2013, p. 432
- ^ a b c d e Frits Scholten, "Mea Sorte Contentus": Rombout Verhulst's Portrait of Jacob van Reygersberg, in: 'The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 19, 1991', The J. Paul Getty Museum Getty Pub, p. 65-74
- ^ Portrait of Jacob van Reygersbergh at the Rijksmuseum
- ^ Isaac Israel Suasso, alias Antonio Lopes Suasso (1614-1685), Baron van Avernas Le Gras, bankier, koopman, 1675 - 1695, toegeschreven aan Rombout Verhulst (1624-01-15 - 1698) at the Rijksmuseum
- ^ F. Scholten (2003) Sumptuous Memories, Studies in seventeenth-century Dutch tomb sculpture. Zwolle: Waanders.
External links
- Media related to Rombout Verhulst at Wikimedia Commons