Vrancke van der Stockt (before 1420 - 14 June 1495)C. Périer-d’Ieteren
"Stockt, Vrancke van der."
In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed December 4, 2011; subscription required). was an

early Netherlandish painter Early Netherlandish painting, traditionally known as the Flemish Primitives, refers to the work of artists active in the Burgundian Netherlands, Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period. ...

. He is most notable as a "direct heir and popularizer" of

Rogier van der Weyden Rogier van der Weyden () or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 140018 June 1464) was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly ...

Life

In 1445 Vrancke van der Stockt became a master in the

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

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and inherited the workshop of his father, Jan van der Stockt, who had recently died. He obtained considerable recognition for his work, becoming the town's official painter after the death of

in 1464. He was also served as town councilor in 1465, 1472, and 1475 and as head of the Confraternity of St. Eloy between 1471 and 1473. With his wife Catherine de Moeyen he had two sons, Bernaert van der Stockt (before 1469 - after 1538) and Michiel van der Stockt (before 1469 - ?), who were both painters.

Work

Van der Stockt's work was heavily influenced by

, with whom he may have collaborated. Compared to Weyden, his work is "more gently drawn". Although his figures have "slender, elegant, and mannered silhouettes," he was "unable to endow them with the same elegant movement and profound drama of his master's figures." He would often reproduce motifs from paintings by Van der Weyden with only minor alterations, as is evidenced by ''Kneeling Donor with Saint John the Baptist'', now in the collection of the

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, in which the figure of the saint closely resembles that in Van der Weyden's ''Medici Madonna''.
Kneeling Donor with Saint John the Baptist
', entry in the online catalog of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, retrieved 4 December 2011. His ''Pietà'' is likewise modelled on van der Weyden's '' Pietà''.Campbell & Van der Stock p. 507 Although he was primarily a painter, Van der Stockt also completed

cartoons A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved over time, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or series of images ...

for embroideries and

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and designs for

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s. None of Van der Stockt's works are documented; rather, they have been attributed to him based on their stylistic relationship to the ''Redemption''

triptych A triptych ( ; from the Greek language, Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) t ...

, now in the collection of the

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in Madrid. The ''Redemption'' triptych itself was not attributed to Van der Stockt until the 1920s.

Gallery

File:VranckeVanDerStock-donorwhitJohn.jpg, ''Kneeling Donor with Saint John the Baptist'' (c. 1470). Note the position of the Saint's feet compared to those in Van der Weyden's ''Medici Madonna''. Van der Stockt has transposed them, unaltered, from steps to a grassy incline, resulting in a relatively awkward pose. File:Rogier van der Weyden 021.jpg, Rogier van der Weyden, ''Medici Madonna'' (c. 1450). File:VranckeVanDerStock-Pieta.jpg, ''Pietà'' (c. 1455-59), now in the

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File:Vrancke van der Stockt - Adoration of the Kings.jpg, ''The Adoration of the Magi''

Bibliography

* Campbell, Lorne & Van der Stock, Jan. ''Rogier van der Weyden: 1400–1464. Master of Passions''. Davidsfonds, Leuven, 2009.

Citations

External links

*
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