Evert Collier

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Evert Collier Oil on Canvas Self-Portrait with Vanitas Still Life, 1684 Honolulu Museum of Art
Edward Collier's trompe l'oeil painting
Edward Collier's painting Vanitas , candlesticks, musical instruments, books, a writing case, an astrological and an earth globe

Evert Collier (born January 26, 1642 in Breda , † around September 8, 1708 in London ) was a Dutch still life painter of the Golden Age . He became known for his Vanitas still lifes and trompe l'œil paintings. His first name is sometimes spelled "Edward" or "Edwaert" or "Eduwaert" or "Edwart," and his last name is sometimes spelled "Colyer" or "Kollier".

Life

Collier was born in Breda , Noord-Brabant . He was introduced to painting in Haarlem , where his earliest paintings show the influence of Vincent van Laurensz the Vinne and his son, who were members of the Guild of St. Luke in Haarlem. Evert Collier was also accepted into the Haarlem Guild in 1664. It can be assumed that Van der Vinne was probably Collier's teacher. From 1667 Collier stayed in Leiden , where he became a member of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke in 1673. He moved to Amsterdam in 1686 and to London in 1693. He probably stayed in Leiden in the years 1702–1706, an assumption based on the works signed and dated there. Then he was back in London, where he died around September 8, 1708 and was buried at St. James Church, Piccadilly. The Denver Art Museum , the Honolulu Museum of Art , the Indianapolis Museum of Art , the National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom), the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Tate Gallery in London are among the public collections of paintings by Evert Collier.

Works

  1. A trompe l'oeil of newspapers, letters and writing implements on a wooden board (1699), 58.8 × 46.2 cm
  2. Edward Collier (1683), oil on canvas, 44.4 × 52.8 cm
  3. Still Life (1699), oil on canvas, 76.2 × 63.5 cm
  4. Still Life: The Smell (1695), oil on canvas, 24⅝ × 20½ in
  5. Still life with a volume by Wither the Emblèmes (1696), oil on canvas, 83.8 × 107.9 cm
  6. A vanitas
  7. Vanitas (1662), oil on panel, 94 × 112.1 cm
  8. Vanitas Still Life (1684), oil on canvas, 99 × 123 cm
  9. Self-Portrait with Vanitas Still Life (1684), oil on canvas, Honolulu Museum of Art

literature

  • Netherlands Institute for Art History (only in Dutch).
  • Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. 1907-1950. With the participation of 300 specialists from home and abroad.
  • Adriaan van der Willigen en Fred G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still Life Painters Working in Oil, 1525–1725. Leiden 2003.

further reading

  • Tuominen, Minna: The Still Life by Edwaert Collier (1642–1708) Ph.D. Thesis. University of Helsinki, 2014, ISBN 978-952-10-9980-9 ( urn.fi ).

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personal data
SURNAME Collier, Evert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calier, Edwaert; Collyer, Edwaert; Colyer, Edwaert; Colier, Eduart; Eduart necklace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch era painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Breda
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1708
Place of death London