Evert van Aelst

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Evert van Aelst, Still Life with Fruit and a Rose and a Tulip in a Vase , 1988 at Sotheby's in Monaco

Evert van Aelst (* 1602 in Delft ; † February 19, 1657 ibid) was a Dutch still life painter of the so-called Golden Age . He was the uncle of the painter Willem van Aelst .

Life

Little is known about the still life painter Evert van Aelst. He may have been born in Delft in 1602, the son of a lawyer named Wilhelm van Aelst. According to Arnold Houbraken , he was probably a descendant of the Flemish painter Pauwels Coecke van Aelst, who , according to tradition , had received special training from Karel van Mander in painting glaeskens met bloemen , which are now interpreted as bouquets in glass vases or bouquets on glass windows .

The career and education of Evert van Aelst is completely in the dark, but his works are stylistically in the footsteps of Pieter Claesz (1597 / 98–1660); but also show influences from Balthasar van der Ast (1593 / 94–1657). From May 15, 1632 he was registered as a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Delft. He was the uncle and teacher of the now more famous still life painter Willem van Aelst (1627–1683), as well as the painter Jan Denysz., Who probably worked with the painter Jan Abrahamsz. Denyse (around 1625-1649) and Adam Pick (1621 / 22-1642). The training given by Houbraken to the painter Emanuel de Witte by Evert van Aelst can not be proven .

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His works are considered very carefully executed. According to Houbraken, he was an excellent painter of all forms of still life. He particularly praises Evert van Aelst's depictions of fruits, armor, balaclavas and metals of all kinds, which he knew how to depict as if they were natural. According to Gustav Friedrich Waagen, he mainly painted dead birds - more rarely other animals and hunting implements - in a very precise manner. However, he criticizes the somewhat gray and heavy overall tone that lies on his work.

He often signed his pictures with EV Aelst . Unmarked images are often problematic in their attribution. A number of the pictures formerly attributed to him are now considered to be works by his nephew Willem, such as the still life with partridge, duck and goldhammer in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie (Inv.-No .: 921) or the picture Hunting with Partridge and Bullfinch from the portfolio of the Dresdener Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Inv.-No. 1330; war loss) which is even signed by Willem van Aelst. Certainly only a few pictures can be assigned to him. They are very rare in public ownership. Every now and then one of his few preserved works turns up at auctions or in the art trade.

Works (selection)

Still life with fruit. 1642
Still life with dead poultry.
Rest after the hunt.
  • Whereabouts unknown
Still life with romans and fruits. around 1639 (signed: EV aelst. a, 1639; on July 7, 1976 at Sotheby's auction in London; lot: 16) • Still life with fruits. around 1641 (signed: EVAelst a. 164 (1); last - after 1988 - Galerie Edel in Cologne) • Still life with fruits and flowers. 1642 (signed: EV aelst º a 1642; on November 9, 1998 at Christie's auction in Amsterdam, lot: 119) • Still life with flowers. 1653 (signed: EV aelst. A °, 1653; on September 19, 1978 at the Dorotheum auction in Vienna; lot: 2) • Still life with lobster, wine, bread and oysters. (attributed; on March 26, 1952 at Sotheby's auction in London as a work by Gerard van Edema ; lot: 64) • Still life with fruits and a rose and a tulip in a vase. (attributed; on December 2nd and 3rd, 1988 at Sotheby's auction in Monaco; lot: 793) • Still life with flowers. (attributed; on May 21, 1992 at the Fischer auction in Lucerne; lot: 2362) • Still life with flowers. (signed: EV Aelst; on May 10, 1994 at the Sotheby's auction in Amsterdam; lot: 45)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Wilhelm Moes: Aelst, Evert van . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 96 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Arnold Houbraken: De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen. Volume 1, Amsterdam 1718, p. 227 f.
  3. ^ Erik Duverger: Coecke van Aelst, Pauwels. In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 20, Munich and Leipzig, 1998, p. 113.
  4. ^ Information provided by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie.
  5. ^ Fred G. Meijer: Denyse, Jan Abrahamsz. In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 26, Munich and Leipzig, 2000, p. 192.
  6. ↑ Eduard Trautscholdt: Witte, Emanuel de . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 121-127 .
  7. ^ Arnold Houbraken: De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen. Volume 1, Amsterdam 1718, p. 228 f.
  8. ^ Gustav Friedrich Waagen: Handbook of the German and Dutch painting schools. Volume 2, Stuttgart 1852, p. 252.
  9. ^ Günter Meißner (ed.): Aelst, Evert van. In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 1, Munich / Leipzig, 1992, p. 439 still listed in the list of works with the addition: Attribution questionable .
  10. ^ Günter Meißner (ed.): Aelst, Evert van. In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 1, Munich / Leipzig, 1992, p. 439 the location Dresden - without mentioning a picture - is still listed in the list of works; According to the general catalog of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister there is no picture by Evert van Aelst in the collection.
  11. ^ Attribution to Evert van Aelst by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie.
personal data
SURNAME Aelst, Evert van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Delft
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1657
Place of death Delft