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Jan Baptist Huysmans (born 1654 in
at the
He possibly influenced Cornelis' son Pieter Balthasar. In 1697-98 he had a registered pupil by the name of Peeter Geeraerts.
He died in Antwerp.
at Shipley Art Gallery
Like his brother Cornelis he painted imaginary Italianate landscapes. His works are often a fusion of the style of North European wooded landscape painting with the Italian inspired vista. In his landscapes with ruins Huysmans also shows his indebtedness to the type of architectural landscape painting first popularised by
at BBC your paintings
As was common practice at the time, he collaborated with specialist painters in Antwerp such as the history and figure painter Jan Erasmus Quellinus. Jan Baptist Huysmans would typically provide the landscape elements in these collaborative works. Examples of collaborations with Quellinus are the ''Mercury turns the jealous Aglaulus into stone'' in the Jan Erasmus Quellinus and Jan Baptist Huysmans, ''Mercury changes the jealous Aglauros into stone''
(Ovidi, Metamorphoses, 2:710-835), ca. 1700 Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
Jan Baptist Huysmans (born 1654 in 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,
; died 1716 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp who is known for his Italianate and arcadian landscapes and architectural capricci.
Life
Jan Baptist Huysmans was born in Antwerp as the son of Hendrick Huysmans and Catharina van der Meyden. He was baptized inAntwerp Cathedral
The Cathedral of Our Lady ( nl, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been ...
on 7 October 1654.Ph. Rombouts en Th. Van Lerius, 'De Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, onder Zinkspreuk: "Wy Jonsten Versaemt"', Julius de Koninck, 1871, pp. 439, 450 and 607 Jan Baptist was the brother of Cornelis
Cornelis is a Dutch language, Dutch form of the male given name Cornelius (name), Cornelius. Some common shortened versions of Cornelis in Dutch are Cees, Cor, Corné, Corneel, Crelis, Kees (given name), Kees, Neel and Nelis.
Cornelis (Kees) an ...
, a prominent landscape painter.Jan Baptist Huysmansat 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 ...
His brother Cornelis was possibly his teacher. He possibly also studied for a while with the marine painter Hendrik van Minderhout
Hendrik van Minderhout (1632 – 22 July 1696) was a Dutch-born artist who was primarily active in the Flemish cities Bruges and Antwerp. He painted marine paintings, harbor scenes, cityscapes, landscapes and architectural paintings.
. He was registered as a pupil at the Antwerp Guild of Saint 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 Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was ide ...
in 1675/76 and he became a master in 1676/77.
He possibly influenced Cornelis' son Pieter Balthasar. In 1697-98 he had a registered pupil by the name of Peeter Geeraerts.
He died in Antwerp.
Work
Jan Baptist Huysman was a landscape artist. His work has often been confused with those of his elder brother Cornelis who painted the same subject matter. A work entitled ''Landscape with animals'' (
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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), which is signed and dated to 1697, and another one entitled ''Landscape with Ruins'' (Shipley Art Gallery
The Shipley Art Gallery is an art gallery in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, located at the south end of Prince Consort Road. It has a Designated Collection of national importance.
Origins
The Shipley Art Gallery opened to the public in 1 ...
), which is signed and dated to 1694, have allowed more of his oeuvre to be distinguished from that of his brother.Jan Baptiste Huysmans, ''Landscape with Ruins''at Shipley Art Gallery
Like his brother Cornelis he painted imaginary Italianate landscapes. His works are often a fusion of the style of North European wooded landscape painting with the Italian inspired vista. In his landscapes with ruins Huysmans also shows his indebtedness to the type of architectural landscape painting first popularised by Claude Lorraine
Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in It ...
in Rome and by Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ...
. These landscapes often depict a glimpse of a pastoral idyll although they may sometimes include elements such as ruins and a tomb, which remind the viewer of the closeness of death.
Jan Baptist Huysmans also painted architectural capricci, i.e. architectural fantasies, which place together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations and may also include staffage
In painting, staffage () are the human and animal figures depicted in a scene, especially a landscape, that are not the primary subject matter of the work. Typically they are small, and there to add an indication of scale and add interest.
Before ...
(figures). An example is ''A ruined classical archway'' (National Trust, Dinton, Wiltshire), which shows ruins of a triumphal arch and the statue of the 
Borghese Gladiator
The ''Borghese Gladiator'' is a Hellenistic life-size marble sculpture portraying a swordsman, created at Ephesus about 100 BC, now on display at the Louvre.
Sculptor
The sculpture is signed on the pedestal by Agasias, son of Dositheus, who i ...
. In the right foreground are also depicted satyrs and nymphs who are festooning an Egypto-Roman stone lion.''A Ruined Classical Archway'' by Jan Baptist Huysmans and Jan Erasmus Quellinusat BBC your paintings
As was common practice at the time, he collaborated with specialist painters in Antwerp such as the history and figure painter Jan Erasmus Quellinus. Jan Baptist Huysmans would typically provide the landscape elements in these collaborative works. Examples of collaborations with Quellinus are the ''Mercury turns the jealous Aglaulus into stone'' in the 
Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
It occupies a wing of the Palais Longchamp, and displays a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from ...
(c. 1700) and the composition ''A ruined classical archway'' mentioned in the previous paragraph.(Ovidi, Metamorphoses, 2:710-835), ca. 1700 Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
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