Willem Schellinks

Willem Schellinks
Raid on the Medway by Schellinks in 1667-1668.
Born	Willem Schellinks 1627 Amsterdam
Died	1678 (aged 50–51) Amsterdam
Nationality	Netherlands
Known for	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Willem Schellinks (1627–1678), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

Biography

He traveled to France with Lambert Doomer in 1646. After that he undertook another journey in 1661-1665 as the guide of Heere Jakob Thierry de Jong, a young gentleman on his Grand Tour. According to Houbraken, Schellinks compiled his drawings and notes about this last journey in three volumes, that weren't published, but which he kept for friends to read. The painter-engraver Arnoud van Halen acquired these volumes and Houbraken was granted permission to read through them himself.

Shah Jahan and his four sons, by Willem Schellinks, Holland school, end of the 17th century.

This trip included visits to England, France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Germany, and Switzerland. Schellinks' hand-written journal, written some years after his travels 1661-1665 and based on his now lost notes, is preserved in the Royal Library of Copenhagen; a transscription Schellinks had made is now owned by the Bodleian Library. The journal forms an important record of the conditions of travel in the 17th century, and while Schellinks does not offer many insights into his views on art or approach to landscape painting, his description of the art collections in the Roman palaces would have filled a gap in the Dutch travel literature of his time. Schellinks journals of his first trip with Doomer were not read or commented on by Houbraken, because he probably didn't know they existed.

External links

• Dutch Artists and Mughal Paintings - Notes by Kavita Singh of a lecture given by Professor Sanjay

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