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Daniël Schellinks or Daniël Schellincks or Schellinger or Schellinx (baptized 11 November 1627 – buried 23 September 1701) was a Dutch silk trader and amateur painter and draughtsman of Italianate landscapes and marine scenes.Daniël Schellinks
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Daniël Schellinks or Daniël Schellincks or Schellinger or Schellinx (baptized 11 November 1627 – buried 23 September 1701) was a Dutch silk trader and amateur painter and draughtsman of Italianate landscapes and marine scenes.Daniël Schellinksat the
Netherlands Institute for Art History
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
Daniel Schellinks, ''River Landscape with Ford and Hunting Company''at the
Liechtenstein Museum
The Liechtenstein Museum is a private art museum in Vienna, Austria. It contains much of the art collection of its owners, the Princely Family of Liechtenstein, rulers of the principality of Liechtenstein. It includes important European works of ar ...
Life
Daniël Schellinks was born in Amsterdam as the younger brother of Willem Schellinks. Little is known about Schellinks' life, training or artistic development. While his brother Willem trained as an artist and specialised in atmospheric Italianate pictures, Daniël does not appear to have had a formal artistic training. Both Schellinks brothers visited Italy. Willem Schellinks was in Rome in 1664. When Daniël married in 1662 he called himself the owner of a clothier's business.Work
Only a few works are securely attributed to Daniël Schellinks. They are almost all based on works by his elder brother Willem. Daniël's profession was a silk trader and he was only an amateur artist. It is believed that many of his works have been wrongly attributed to other artists. Daniël and his brother Willem form part of the Dutch landscape and genre artists active in the 16th and 17th centuries who depicted Italian scenes, either real or imaginary. They are referred to as the 'Italianates'.Sheila D. Muller, ''Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia'', Routledge, 4 July 2013, p. 401 They were influenced by Italian models and attempted to capture the Mediterranean light through a colourful style of painting with delicate atmospheric effects. While a number of the Italianates visited and even worked in Italy, some never did but relied for their Italianate scenes on the works of artists who had in fact been there and had brought the Italianate style to their native country upon their return. The Dutch architectural painterJan van der Heyden
Jan van der Heyden (5 March 1637, Gorinchem – 28 March 1712, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and became ...
, for instance, likely never visited Italy but is believed to have used some of Daniël Schellinks' drawings for his Italianate paintings.
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National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the Unite ...
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schellinks, Daniel 1627 births 1701 deaths Painters from Amsterdam Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch landscape painters Dutch male painters Dutch marine artists