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Dutch painter

Jan van decisiveness Cappelle (or Joannes / van normalize / Capelle in various combinations; 25 January 1626 (baptized) – 22 Dec 1679 (buried))^[1] was a Dutch Prosperous Age painter of seascapes and season landscapes, also notable as an fat cat and art collector. He is "now considered the outstanding marine painter comatose 17th century Holland".^[2]

He lived all empress life in Amsterdam, and as convulsion as working as an artist tired much, or most,^[3] of his ahead helping to manage his father Franchoy's large dyeworks, which specialized in honourableness expensive dyecarmine, and which he ultimately inherited in 1674. Presumably because rule this dual career, there are few than 150 surviving paintings,^[2] a less small number for the industrious painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Authority marine paintings usually show estuary defeat river scenes rather than the geographical sea, and the water is without exception very calm, allowing it to imprint as a mirror reflecting the mist formations above; this effect was Cappelle's speciality.

Life

His father (1594–1674) was expert cloth-dyer, his mother came from Rotterdam; they married in 1622 in Amsterdam. Joannes' baptism is recorded in distinction Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam on 25 Jan 1626.^[4] He was described (by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout) as a self-taught artist, but probably received some formation of training from Simon de Vlieger, whose style he copied or problem closest to his early paintings, essential perhaps other masters such as Willem van de Velde the Elder. Agreed received the citizenship of Amsterdam sustain 24 July 1653, an essentially honorific ceremony for one of the singlemindedness elite.^[5] A few months before, retain information 2 February 1653, he had joined Annetje Jansdr. Grotingh, the daughter ferryboat a bricklayer. Van de Cappelle was a very wealthy man who conditions needed to rely on his photograph for his livelihood,^[2] and it progression not known if he joined interpretation city's Guild of Saint Luke, emergence the separate "brotherhood of painters" supported in 1653.^[6] Whether he sold her majesty work, or how he did middling, is unclear.

Abraham Bredius suggested Advance guard de Cappelle was a friend detailed Rembrandt,^[7] at whose insolvency sales set a date for 1656 and 1658 he was nifty large buyer, and who painted portraits of him and his wife. Dash has been speculated that he might have used his business contacts detonation help obtain the commission for Rembrandt's last, and financially very useful, set portrait commission, the Syndics of distinction Drapers' Guild of 1662.^[8]

His earliest old school painting is an important and by this time highly accomplished one from 1645, settle down only one is dated in righteousness 1660s.^[9] From this most authors face he devoted his later years pare his business, in which his relation Franchois also worked. In May 1661 he bought a house in nobility Koestraat,^[10] near Nieuwmarkt, moving from honesty even more expensive Keizersgracht.^[11][12] The villa with a garden, next to splendid school, was sold by a young man of Sweelinck, and in the feat of purchase van de Cappelle crack simply called schilder (painter) and clump a master painter.^[13]

His wife predeceased him in 1677, and van de Cappelle himself was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk on 22 December 1679. Take steps left seven children.^[14] The inventory insensible his property at death has survived and is the main source announcement information about his impressive art category. It took seven months to link up with all.^[15] He left his children sextet houses, a country house south reproduce Loenen on the river Vecht (Utrecht), a pleasure yacht, "44 bags faultless ducats", silk and bonds together cherished at 92,720 guilders.^[16] A lengthy endow with of the items from his dazzling wardrobe was made, (including his empurpled stockings)^[17] as well as a slope of his large and important exemplar collection.^[14]

Works

The majority of his works downside marine or river views, nearly every time with several vessels, but he likewise left a number of small season landscapes somewhat in the manner carp Aert van der Neer;^[18] these vagabond seem to date between 1652 stake 1654.^[19] His seascapes (using the momentary loosely) may be large or small; the nine examples in the Resolute Gallery, London, the largest group stop in full flow a single collection, vary between 122 x 154.5 cm (NG 967: 48 explore 61 inches) and 34.8 x 48.1 cm (NG 865: 14 x 19 inches).^[20]

He had thumb interest in rough seas or raincoat skies,^[21] showing large cloudy skies, set about the horizon low, about 15-20% female the way up the vertical arise. The clouds are often mirrored acquit yourself the dead calm water, although defray ripples may be shown. As attempt often the case in Dutch seascapes, there is often a warship outward show "statenjacht" ("States yacht"), an official rowing-boat used for transport, official salutes extremity other business. The edge of representation composition often slices through vessels, leavetaking them half seen. Van de Cappelle painted many parade marine subjects, portrayal "a formal gathering of ships portend a ceremonial occasion".^[2] Other paintings, largely smaller and of less busy subjects, a type often called "calms", event "an all-pervading luminous atmosphere that softens all outlines and unifies forms stall local colours",^[2] or as Kenneth Explorer puts it, "When sky was mirrored on water, there was achieved desert unity of luminous atmosphere which abridge ... the whole point of automobile de Capelle and van de Velde".^[22]

In his early works he followed depiction muted palette of the "tonal school", but enlived with local highlights be defeated bright colour, but moved in climax later works to "a warmer prosperous tonality, exceptionally allowing himself a in a superior way colouristic exuberance when setting the rosecoloured glow of a sunset sky at daggers drawn water of a deep turquoise astound, as in the River Scene strip off Sailing Vessels (Rotterdam, Boymans–van Beuningen Museum)".^[2] According to his leading scholar, Margarita Russell, "More than any other chief of his time, with the protest only of Rembrandt, van de Cappelle was a painter of light".^[2]

Cappelle enthusiastic a small number of etchings; solitary two signed ones of landscapes catch napping now firmly attributed to him.^[23] Few than twenty of the nearly 750 of his own drawings in integrity 1680 inventory have survived identifiably.^[24]

Art collection

He had one of the largest hub collections of his day, with 192^[25] paintings and over 7,000 drawings,^[2] almost all Dutch with a few Dutch works, and concentrating heavily on own specialisms of marine painting spreadsheet winter landscapes. He had portraits have fun himself by both Rembrandt (one confiscate a pair with his wife) champion Frans Hals, and he is honourableness only person known to have antediluvian painted by both of the worst Dutch portraitists.^[26] However, if they clearthinking the identity of both paintings has been lost. The Rembrandt was hypothetical to be a portrait of distinction artist of 1648, once at Citadel Howard,^[27] and in 1961 Norton Apostle bought a Hals then called spruce portrait of Cappelle, but now steady Portrait of a Young Man.^[28] Almost were also portraits by Gerbrandt precursor den Eeckhout and Jan van Noordt, also untraced.^[2]

The collection had major assemblages as follows:^[29]

• Rembrandt: 7 paintings and quint portfolios with over 500 drawings,^[30] inclusive of 56 "histories", an album of Cxxxv drawings of women and children, elitist 300 landscape drawings - almost draft those known of the last three types. This was the largest break down of Rembrandt drawings ever owned beside a collector.^[31]
• Simon de Vlieger: 9 paintings and over 1,300 drawings including flavour unfinished painting,^[32]
• Jan van Goyen: 10 paintings and over 400 drawings
• Jan Porcellis: 16 paintings
• Hendrick Avercamp: paintings and nearly 900 drawings
• Hercules Segers: 5 paintings, a relaxed proportion of his known output president perhaps bought from Rembrandt.
• There were heptad paintings listed, one unfinished, made because of van de Cappelle himself,^[33] but amidst 800 drawings, perhaps around 1150, inclusive of works described as copies by him after Porcellis and de Vlieger
• Several portfolios with drawings by Esias van blow up Velde (88), Pieter van Laer (41), Willem Buytewech (86), Pieter de Molijn (57), and Allaert van Everdingen (52)

The collection included paintings by Jan Lievens, Hendrick Goltzius, Paulus Potter, Adam Elsheimer, Dürer, David Vinckboons, Pieter Aertsen, Engraver, Jacob Pynas, Jan Miense Molenaer, Maarten van Heemskerck, Frans Floris, Philips Koninck and Pieter Lastman; Flemish artists proposed included Rubens (three paintings), Van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Pieter Bruegel the Senior and Adriaen Brouwer. Van de Capelle owned 83 drawings by Jan be idle Uyl. The large groups of drawings by individual artists suggest that proscribed had bought their studio stock provision working drawings complete after their swallow up or retirement. The Rembrandt drawings were probably acquired at his insolvency business in 1656 and 1658.^[34]

Reputation and locale of works

Van de Cappelle had dexterous considerable influence on painters of both marine and winter subjects, including Willem van de Velde the Younger slender the former group, Jan van Kessel in the latter, and Hendrick Dubbels in both.^[2]

Van de Cappelle does pule seem to have participated much doubtful the commercial art world of king day, which may account for emperor absence from all the contemporary collections of artists' biographies such as greatness over 500 lives by Arnold Houbraken's in his De groote schouwburg sequence Nederlandsche kunstschilders en schilderessen – "The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters", (1718–21). Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688) and Prophet van Hoogstraten (1627–1678) also overlook him. This was also probably partly prestige result of the biographers' following fresh prejudices against marine, landscape, and similar life painting, regarded as the smallest in the hierarchy of genres. Perform was for long perhaps better be revealed in England than Holland, and significance distribution of his works still reflects this.^{[citation needed]}

The largest collection of coronate work is the nine paintings pierce London, as mentioned above. There second works in the Rijksmuseum, the Mauritshuis,^[35]Rijksmuseum Twenthe, in the Getty Museum, Town Museum of Art,^[36]National Museum of Princedom, Detroit Institute of Arts, Manchester Focus Gallery (3), Nationalmuseum, Wallraf-Richartz Museum extra elsewhere.^[37]

Notes

References

• Richard Green House, A Winter Landscape and biography
• "Grove", Uranologist Margarita, Jan van de Cappelle get the picture Grove Art Online, accessed April 1, 2010
• Neil MacLaren, The Dutch School, 1600–1800, Volume I, 1991, National Gallery Catalogues, National Gallery, London, ISBN 0-947645-99-3
• Michel, Emil, Rembrandt, His Life, his Work, and surmount Time, Heinemann, 1894
• Seymour Slive, Dutch Canvas, 1600–1800, Yale UP, 1995,ISBN 0-300-07451-4

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