![Hubertus Quellinus - Heracles and Omphale](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Hubertus_Quellinus_-_Heracles_and_Omphale.jpg)
Hubertus Quellinus or Hubert Quellinus (15 August 1619,
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, – 1687) was a Flemish printmaker, draughtsman and painter and a member of the prominent Quellinus family of artists. His engravings after the work of his brother, the Baroque sculptor
Artus Quellinus the Elder
Artus Quellinus the Elder, Artus Quellinus I or Artus (Arnoldus) Quellijn (20 or 30 August 1609, Antwerp – 23 August 1668, Antwerp) was a Flemish sculptor. He is regarded as the most important representative of the Baroque in sculpture ...
, were instrumental in the spread of the Flemish Baroque idiom in Europe in the second half of the 17th century.
Life
Hubertus Quellinus was born in Antwerp on 15 August 1619 as the son of
Erasmus Quellinus the Elder and Elisabeth van Uden. His family was a family of sculptors and painters which included, amongst others, his father and his brothers, the Rubens pupil
Erasmus Quellinus the Younger
Erasmus Quellinus the Younger or Erasmus Quellinus II (1607–1678) was a Flemish painter, engraver, draughtsman and tapestry designer who worked in various genres including history, portrait, allegorical, battle and animal paintings. He was a ...
and the prominent sculptor
Artus Quellinus the Elder
Artus Quellinus the Elder, Artus Quellinus I or Artus (Arnoldus) Quellijn (20 or 30 August 1609, Antwerp – 23 August 1668, Antwerp) was a Flemish sculptor. He is regarded as the most important representative of the Baroque in sculpture ...
.
[Hubert Quellinus]
at 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 ...
Hubertus' mother was the sister of the prominent landscape painter
Lucas van Uden
Lucas van Uden (18 October 1595 – 4 November 1672) was a leading Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and engraver, who lived and worked in Antwerp. He was a leading landscape painter who collaborated with various local figure painters. ...
.
![Hubertus Quellinus, Artus Quellinus - Allegory of Justice](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Hubertus_Quellinus%2C_Artus_Quellinus_-_Allegory_of_Justice.jpg)
In 1650 he traveled to Rome where he joined the
Bentvueghels
The Bentvueghels (Dutch for "Birds of a Feather") were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent ("painters' clique").
Activities
The members, which included ...
, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing nickname, the so-called 'bent name'. Hubertus was given the bent name ''Saracin''. He witnessed that he was present when the lifeless body of
Pietro Testa
Pietro Testa (1611–1650) was an Italian High Baroque artist active in Rome. He is best known as a printmaker and draftsman.
Biography
He was born in Lucca, and thus is sometimes called ''il Lucchesino''. He moved to Rome early in life. O ...
was the retrieved from the Tiber in 1650.
He was recorded in Amsterdam in 1655. Between 18 September 1665 and 18 September 1666 he registered at the
Guild of St. Luke
The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Four Evangelists, Evangelist Saint Luke, Luke, the patron sa ...
in Antwerp as a wijnmeester’
on of a masterin the specialty of engraver.
[Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, ''De Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, onder Zinkspreuk: "Wy Jonsten Versaemt" afgeschreven en bemerkt door Ph. Rombouts en Th. Van Lerius, Advokaet, onder de bescherming van den raed van bestuer der koninklyke Akademie van beeldende Kunsten, van gezegde Stad'']
Volume 2, Antwerp, 1872, p. 362 Quellinus was in Amsterdam by 1660 where he collaborated on a publication on the new City Hall of Amsterdam.
(''Images of the City Hall of Amsterdam in 30 copper plates''), by Jacob van Campen
Jacob van Campen (2 February 1596 - 13 September 1657) was a Dutch artist and architect of the Dutch Golden Age, Golden Age.
Life
He was born into a wealthy family at Haarlem, and spent his youth in his home town. Being of noble birth and wit ...
& drawings by Jacob Vennekool; followed by (The main statues and ornaments of the Amsterdam City Hall mostly made in marble by Artus Quellinus), Amsterdam, Frederick de Widt (or Witt), 1665.
Om 9 August 1666 he sold in Amsterdam 113 copper plates, including their 15 year patent, regarding Amsterdam City Hall to
Frederik de Wit
Frederik de Wit (born Frederik Hendriksz; – July 1706) was a Dutch Cartography, cartographer and artist.
Early years
Frederik de Wit was born Frederik Hendriksz. He was born to a Protestantism, Protestant family in about 1629, i ...
. He returned to Antwerp where he was buried on 2 March 1688. His death duties were met between 18 September 1687 and 18 September 1688.
Work
Quellinus was mainly an engraver of architecture but he also made some portraits and painted some history paintings.
![Jan van Kessel - gulden cabinet](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Jan_van_Kessel_-_gulden_cabinet.png)
The publication on the new City Hall of Amsterdam was published in Amsterdam in 1660 consisted of two parts: (''Images of the City Hall of Amsterdam in 30 copper plates''), by
Jacob van Campen
Jacob van Campen (2 February 1596 - 13 September 1657) was a Dutch artist and architect of the Dutch Golden Age, Golden Age.
Life
He was born into a wealthy family at Haarlem, and spent his youth in his home town. Being of noble birth and wit ...
and (The main statues and ornaments of the Amsterdam City Hall mostly made in marble by
Artus Quellinus). The first part consisted of 30 plates depicting the
Amsterdam City Hall
Amsterdam City Hall is a historic Seat of local government, city hall complex located in Amsterdam (city), New York, Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. The complex includes the former Sanford Mansion, laundry building, and carriage house. T ...
after designs made by Jacob Vennekool and engraved by Dancker Danckerts while the second part of the publication in two volumes included prints after the marble statues and ornaments executed by Artus Quellinus the Elder in the Amsterdam City Hall. The designs for these prints in the second part were made and engraved by Hubert Quellinus and were marked with the initials of both Artus (A. Q) and Hubertus Quellinus (H. Q). The two parts formed a volume in
folio
The term "folio" (), has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ma ...
.
[ The first part was published initially in 1655 while the second part was first published in 1663 in Amsterdam but the publisher Frederick de Widt (or 'de Witt') changed the dates on the Quellinus prints to 1665 and 1668. The publication was instrumental in the spread of the Baroque style in Northern Europe until the end of the 17th century, and was used by nearly all followers of the Flemish Baroque style in Europe as the most important pattern-book and source of inspiration in the fields of architectural ornamentation and sculpture.][ Michał Wardzyński, ''Flemish Trend in Schleswig-to-Königsberg Baroque Sculpture in Marble and Stone in the Second Half of the 17th Century '', in: Polish Baroque, European Contexts, Proceedings of an International Seminar held at The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, June 27-28, 2011, p. 229-256]
He also engraved portraits.
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Flemish engravers
Flemish printmakers
Flemish draughtsmen
Flemish Baroque painters
Flemish history painters
Artists from Antwerp
Members of the Bentvueghels
Painters from Antwerp
1619 births
1687 deaths