Adriaan Schoonebeek

Adriaan Schoonebeek ( Russian Адриан Шхонебек ; * 1661 in Rotterdam , † 1705 in Moscow ) was a Dutch - Russian engraver .

Life

Schoonebeek learned from 1676 to 1679 with the Amsterdam engraver Romeyn de Hooghe . He then studied at the University of Leiden . In 1688 he opened his own printing house in Amsterdam. He made a name for himself with portraits of Alexander VIII , Leopold I and Ignatius von Loyola .

In 1698 Schoonebeek came to Moscow at the invitation of Peter I and opened a copper engraving workshop in the armory of the Moscow Kremlin . He headed the workshop and was the teacher of the Russian engravers Pyotr Leontjewitsch Bunin , Alexei Fyodorowitsch Subow and Iwan Fyodorowitsch Subow . The painter Ivan Nikititsch Nikitin received his first artistic training there.

Schoonebeek's best known work was the depiction of the ship of the line Goto Predestinatsia , which was later useful in the restoration of the ship. Apart from his artistic copperplate engravings , he was known for his geographical maps . These included the maps of the delta of the Northern Dvina 1701 and the geographical representation of Ingermanland .

Works

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  TABULA ROTERODAMI NOVISSIMA 1689

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  Pictura loquens; sive Heroicarum tabularum Hadriani Schoonebeeck enarratio et explicatio (1695)

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  Siege of the Azov Fortress in 1696

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  Franz Timmerman with a plan of Azov

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  The conquest of Azov by the ship of the line Apostle Peter and the galleys of the Azov fleet (1695)

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  Fireworks in Moscow 1697

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  Goto Predestinatsia (1701)

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  Siege of Nöteborg 1702 (1703)

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  Boarding the Astrild and the Gedan 1703

Web links

• Literature by and about Adriaan Schoonebeek in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Adriaan Schoonebeek in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} British Museum : Adriaan Schoonebeek (Biographical details) (accessed March 26, 2019).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Polewoi PN : Шхонебек, Адриан, (подписывался также Шонбек, Шанубек и Схонебек [Schoonebeck]) . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 23 , 1911, pp. 556-557 ( Wikisource [accessed March 26, 2019]).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Biografija.Ru: Шхонебек Адриан (accessed on March 26, 2019).
4. ↑ "Географический чертеж Ижорской земли" Ок.1705 (accessed March 26, 2019).