Jan Frans van Douven

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Jan Frans van Douven , also Johan Francois Douven or Douven de Oude (born March 2, 1656 in Roermond , † 1727 in Düsseldorf ), was a Dutch portrait painter who also made miniatures.

Life

Douven was the son of the landlord Gerard Douven. He belonged to the Leyden School in the " Golden Age of the Netherlands " . He was twelve years old when his father died and his mother first apprenticed him to Gabriel Lambert in Liège. After two years of learning to draw there, he spent three years with his cousin Christophorus Puitlink in Roermond to learn the art of painting. He then worked for three years for Don Jan Dellano Velasco, an art-loving finance advisor to King Charles II of Spain . In his large collection of paintings, he had the opportunity to study and paint after the works of famous Italian masters. This made him known and he received orders from high personalities at the Düsseldorf court. He was even employed there as a court painter in 1682 . Since 1691 he held the highest position at court as a “cabinet painter”.

At the age of 28 he married Maria Johanna (née Daniels). Douven, who initiated the construction of the Gemäldegalerie Düsseldorf , was knighted by Elector Jan Wellem and "sent on a journey as an art agent to increase art treasures", where he acquired art treasures in Italy, among other places. The godparents of his ten children included the electors and the sculptor Gabriel de Grupello . Douven's main works include the double portrait of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz and his wife Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici (1708).

Works

Princess Amalie

On a trip to Vienna, on which he had accompanied Elector Johann Wilhelm, he made portraits of Emperor Leopold and Empress Eleonora as well as of other people at the Viennese court. He received further commissions, for example, he portrayed Princess Charlotte Amalie (* October 6, 1706, † October 28, 1782) of Denmark or the Danish King Frederick IV and Queen Louise . On behalf of the emperor he came to the court of Modena in 1697 to paint the princess Amalie of Hanover . In Florence he made a portrait of the Grand Duke and studied the city's art treasures and was commissioned to make a self-portrait for the Uffizi. Then he went back to Düsseldorf.

Douven is said to have portrayed at least three emperors, five kings, seven queens and a number of princes, princesses, princes and princesses. Like Adrian von der Werff, he is considered a typical representative of court art of that time. His works have a representative style. They can be found in several collections, including in the Wilhelmshöhe Gallery and Palace (Kassel), in Düsseldorf, Munich and at other locations.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jan Frans van Douven  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Frans Douven, called De Oude: Self-portrait with the portrait of the Elector couple Johann Wilhelm and Anna Maria Luisa duesseldorf.de
  2. ↑ Museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf: Peter Paul Rubens, Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz and Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.museum-kunst-palast.de  
  3. ↑ Ludwig von Buerkel (ed.): Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst . tape 49 . Prestel Verlag, 1998, ISSN  0077-1899 , OCLC 1716068 , p. 99, 122 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ duesseldorf.de
  5. ↑ Gustav Prümm: A gain for life: The Düsseldorf picture gallery of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz . Lightning Source Incorporated, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9115-1 , pp. 101 (204 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Douven, Jan Frans van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douven, Johan Francois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Roermond
DATE OF DEATH 1727
Place of death Dusseldorf