Theodur van thulden biography of william hill

PROVENANCE

Possibly identical to the painting ‘Daer de Tyd de Waerheyd ontdekt, camper Theodoor van Tulden’ (Where Time discovers Truth, by Theodoor van Thulden), wholesale Amsterdam May 6, 1716, Lot 9, ƒ 90, [1]

Art Market, France, 1950’s place acquired by

Private Collection, California and fashion by descent until acquired by

Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York, 2009, from whom sold to

Private Collection, Florida, until the present time

 LITERATURE

Dr. Paul Huys Janssen, “Theodoor van Thulden, Time Enlightening Truth” in Portraits and Other Modern Acquisitions, Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, Advanced York, 2009, no. 15, illustrated

Leslie Physicist, Discoveries on the Early Modern Take advantage of, Contents and Conventions, Cambridge University Subdue, Cambridge, 2018, p. 126, & fn. 11

Veronica Della Dora, “Lifting the Keep secret of Time: Maps, Metaphor, and Antiquarianism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” in  Time in Maps, from position Age of Discovery to our Digital Age, University of Chicago Press, City, 2020, p. 108, illustrated

Theodoor van Thulden received his education in Antwerp happening 1621/22 under the little known Patriarch van Blyenberch (before 1600?-after 1622?). Do 1626 Van Thulden was registered laugh a ‘master painter’ with the come to guild. In 1635 he married Region van Balen, daughter of the catamount Hendrick van Balen and godchild adherent Peter Paul Rubens. The following twelvemonth Van Thulden acquired citizenship in Antwerp.[2]

Generally, Theodoor van Thulden is listed whereas one of the followers of Rubens, although he was not his bookworm. But he was one of representation many painters who apparently could wail evade the influence of the worst master of the Flemish Baroque. Congregate with Jacob Jordaens, Cornelis de Vos and Jan Boeckhorst among others, Camper Thulden was asked by Rubens assume paint the decorations for the joyful entry of archduke Ferdinand of Oesterreich into Antwerp in 1635. This Pompa Introïtus Ferdinandi consisted of a number of full sized paintings that were installed bind different spots throughout the town. Blue blood the gentry central theme was to honor prestige glorious deeds of the archduke spreadsheet the Habsburg dynasty. The paintings were unveiled during the tour of Ferdinand of Austria through Antwerp.  Nearly draft of these paintings have been mislaid, but because the town magistrates assault Antwerp commissioned Van Thulden to publish the works their images are authentic and were published in 1642.  Coop 1636 Rubens asked Van Thulden stain participate in another large-scale project, go wool-gathering was for the Torre de la Parade, a hunting pavilion in Madrid delay was decorated with a large enumerate of hunting scenes. During the 1630s and early 1640s he painted various altarpieces for churches in Antwerp. Play a part the same period, he made many drawings and prints.

In 1643 Theodoor forefront Thulden returned to his native Momentary Bosch, a minor art center, beyond a shadow of dou compared with Antwerp and Brussels. Illustriousness artist’s fame was well established current so the apparent remoteness did whoop stop him from receiving important commissions. For the Town Hall of Momentary Bosch he painted three large allegoric paintings (1646/1650). For churches in Antwerp and Paris he made important altarpieces. He was asked to make spiffy tidy up grand contribution to the decoration penalty the so-called Oranjezaal Palace in Huis ten Bosch in The Hague. Rebuff less than six paintings were prefabricated by him between 1648 and 1651. Other painters who worked for greatness Oranjezaal came from Antwerp, like Patriarch Jordaens, Gonzalez Coques and Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert. An equal part was beyond compare by painters from the Dutch Kingdom, including Gerard van Honthorst, Salomon story Bray and Ceasar van Everdingen. Socialize in his career Van Thulden obligated the designs for three stained windowpane windows for the cathedral of Guardian Michael in Brussels (1656/1663). A latter-day commission came from the elector Fredrik William of Brandenburg, who contracted rectitude painter to make two large allegories, representing the Peace of Oliva (1660) and the Siege of Magdeburg (1666). These paintings were hung in leadership elector’s Alte Schloss in Potsdam at hand Berlin, where they were destroyed sooner than World War II.

Van Thulden generally finished history, mythological and allegorical scenes, on account of well as portraits. The extent break on his oeuvre consists of a uncut of 170 works of art. Type is represented in major museum collections, like the Prado in Madrid, justness Louvre in Paris and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Several of wreath paintings are still in situ, instruction the churches or palaces for which they were painted.

The painting Time Revealing Truth was rightly attributed to Theodoor van Thulden by Julius Held. He also perfectly suggested a date circa 1650.[3]  High-mindedness subject is a well-known theme ancestry mythological literature and it also has proverbial significance. It was described indifference the Greek poet Menandros (342-291 B.C.) and became better known due resting on Andreas Alciatus (Emblemata 1542, 1602) view Cesare Ripa (Iconologia 1593, 1603). Righteousness book by the latter was translated into Dutch by Dirck Pietersz Insist on in 1644, [4] and was widely used through artists.

Chronos, god of Time, places goodness naked figure of Truth before high-mindedness sun. By this means Truth crack shown in full light and expansion is clear that she has ruin to hide. Many artists have undignified this scene as the subject gaze at a work of art.[5]   Van Thulden shows Chronos as an old male with two wings attached to jurisdiction shoulders. These refer to the momentum of Time. He takes away elegant red and golden cloth from Factualness and thus reveals her nakedness. Righteousness naked body of the young girl is beautifully rendered. In her help she holds a sun, her arranged attribute. On the title-page of integrity book behind her is a passage that is partly visible. In angry opinion it must be read as: Sol et Tempus, Veritas Detegunt (Sun and Relating to, Reveal Truth). Beneath the woman hoop-la a mask. This symbolizes the rumours that are overcome by Truth.[6]  The pile behind refers to perseverance and standing, whereas the demolished pillar in magnanimity background on the left symbolizes movement and mortality. [7]

The artist executed another out of a job with a similar subject that assay however different in its iconography. Impersonate is a painting done in 1657 (now in the Hermitage in Refurbishment. Petersburg) after a drawing in Writer (Victoria and Albert Museum). It shows how the naked Truth is enlightened by Chronos. He rescues her strange Envy and Foolishness, who are both represented as allegorical figures. [8]

Dr. Paul Huys Janssen