Hendrik Abbé

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Hendrik Abbé (* before February 28, 1639 in Antwerp ; † towards the end of the 17th century) was a Flemish painter and draftsman . Maybe he was an architect too .

Life

Hendrik Abbé was the second son of the art dealer Claude Abbé († 1652 or 1653) and Elisabeth van Noorden. Few sure facts are known about his life. For example, there is no information available about which master he had as a teacher. Numerous authors identified him without sufficient basis with an abbe who created the drawing for the portrait of the painter Peeter van Bredael , which was engraved by Conrad Lauwers for the Gulden Cabinet of the Flemish poet, lawyer and politician Cornelis de Bie (Antwerp 1662). At the age of 22, Abbé would have been the youngest artistic collaborator of Cornelis de Bie. A document from the Antwerp notary JM Lodewijcx dated May 16, 1665, in which the debt of an artist Hendrik Abbé to the priest Franciscus Anthoine for half a year of boarding allowance is estimated at 180 guilders with greater certainty. Therefore, this Abbé had to pledge several of his works of art, which, if he could not pay his debt within three weeks, should go to the priest.

It is strange that Abbé's name does not appear in the documents and invoices of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke , although he is said to have published several graphics in Antwerp in 1670. Whether these are graphics for the cathedral of this city, as stated in the article on Abbé in the French artist lexicon Bénézit , is also not certain. The registered register of the Guild of Luke only mentions a miniaturist (publisher ) Hendrik as a free master of the guild in 1673/1674 , without giving his family name. It is unlikely that this Hendrik is identical to the Abbé discussed here, partly because, as the son of a master, Abbé would not have had to pay money to the guild like the aforementioned Hendrik.

Abbé was not only active as a painter, he is also said to have pursued the profession of architect . Alexandre Pinchart tracked down a document in the files of the Council of Brabant, which used to be in the General Imperial Archives in Brussels , according to which a painter and architect Hendrik Abbé drew a model in 1671 for the candlesticks that make up the chapter of the Sint-Goedelekerk in Brussels among the statues of the apostles intended to place. However, this document is lost today, which is why it can no longer be investigated whether the abbe named in it is actually to be equated with the artist dealt with here. In the registration registers of the Brussels artists, Alexandre Pinchart also discovered the note that a painter Abbé, whose first name is missing, was accepted into this guild on July 13, 1676. In this case, too, it cannot be decided with certainty whether he is identical to Hendrik Abbé. The only work that can be attributed with certainty to Hendrik Abbé are four prints signed with the monogram HA or with their full name, which belong to the illustrations of the translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses , which Pierre Du Ryer arranged for , and which appeared in Brussels and Amsterdam in 1677 . It is possible that a ceiling sketch signed HAF 1677 in the Albertina in Vienna is related to Hendrik Abbé. It is more likely that a portrait of the Three Graces in a landscape that once belonged to the art collector James Hazard and bears the signature of H. Abbe can be assigned to him .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Hendrik Abbé was baptized on February 28, 1639 in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Antwerp (Erik Duverger: Abbé, Hendrik . In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983 , ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 55.)
  2. ↑ a b c Erik Duverger: Abbé, Hendrik . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 55.
  3. ^ Bénézit. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et engraveurs. 4th edition 1999, vol. 1, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Abbé, Hendrik . 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. 12 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
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SURNAME Abbé, Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH before February 28, 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH 17th century