Johannes Antiquus (1702 in

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– 1750 in Groningen) was an eighteenth-century Dutch painter.

Life

Antiquus was born at

in 1702. He learned the art of glass staining from Gerard van der Veen, and practised it for some years. He then became a student of Jan Abel Wassenberg, a painter of history and portraits, under whom he studied some time. He then went to France, where he was much employed as a portrait painter, but did not long remain at Paris, wishing to visit Italy. He lived mainly at Florence, where he was employed by the Grand Duke of Tuscany for six years. His principal work was a large picture of the Fall of the Giants, which was sufficiently esteemed for the sketch of it to be placed in the

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. After several years in Italy, he returned to the Netherlands, where he met with a very flattering reception, and was employed by the

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, in the palace of Loo, where he painted a large picture of Mars disarmed by the Graces, and several other works. He was a correct draughtsman and a good colourist. He died in 1750. His brother Lambertus Antiquus was also a painter A Woman at a Fountain by a Ruined Temple, the Farnese Hercules in the Background MET DP800083.jpg A Shepherd under a Ruined Arch with the Farnese Hercules MET DP800084.jpg Johannes Antiquus - Edzard Jacob Lewe van Middelstum.jpg Johannes Antiquus - Michiel van Bolhuis.jpg Johannes Antiquus - Reint Jan Lewe van Middelstum.jpg Johannes Antiquus - Alegonda Maria Beckeringh-van Bolhuis.jpg

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Drawings by Antiquus in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1702 births 1750 deaths Painters from Groningen 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters {{Netherlands-painter-stub