Dirk Lievens

Dirk Lievens (* 1612 in Leiden ; † 1651 in East India ; also Dirck Lievens ) was a Dutch painter.

Life

Lievens was the son of the art ticker Lieven Hendricx (1570–1642) and his wife Machtelt Jansdr. van Noortsant (1580–1622) and younger brother of the painter Jan Lievens . His father was married twice; the first marriage had eight children: Joost, Johan, Dirck, Titus, Grietge, Lea, Rachel and Jannetge. The second wife was named Annetge (nee Commersd ^t ) with whom he had another son Vroom.

Lievens was trained as a painter by his brother, probably between 1627 and 1629, and was probably also active in this profession. It is known from contemporary inventory lists that his works were in various Leiden collections and that he mainly painted landscapes and portraits. Orientalizing tronies seem to have been a specialty . On January 25, 1640 he is mentioned as "Dirck Livius, schilder , residing in Amsterdam" in a document, which concerns the granting of a power of attorney for the purpose of "selling a house on St. Pieters Choorsteeg in Leiden and the alienation of other goods by his." Father, Lieven Hendricx. ”In another document dated April 23, 1651 it is mentioned that his brother Titus Livius was authorized by the Lievens family to“ receive the money from the East Indian company to their brother and relative Dirck Lievens […] In 1648 he had left his home and embarked on the yacht “de Sparwer” for East India, where he settled and probably died around 1650 or shortly afterwards. Of his siblings, only the painter and art ticker Johan (Jan) Lievens and Titus Lievens, as well as his sisters Lea and Rachel Lievens, were still alive when he died. his brother the bookseller Justus (Joost) Lievens had died in 1649.

Works

No picture of his works can be found today, but individual paintings are documented. For example, three pictures, apparently painted around 1638, were in the possession of Lievens neighbor and early biographer Rembrandt van Rijns Jan Jansz. Orlers ; two landscapes, including a view of the city gate of Hoorn and a tronie with a Persian character head.

literature

• Lievens, Dirck . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 213 .
• Roelof van Straten: Rembrandt's way to art 1606–1632. Berlin 2006, p. 70.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The inventory of the estate of Jan Livius . In: Abraham Bredius , Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (eds.): Artist inventories; Documents on the history of Dutch art in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries . First part. M. Nijhoff, The Hague 1915, p. 190, 193–195 and 215 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive or uni-heidelberg.de ).