Jan Porcellis
Jan Porcellis (* around 1582 in Ghent ; † January 29, 1632 in Zoeterwoude ) was a Dutch-Flemish marine painter, draftsman and etcher.
There are different variants of his first name (Johannes) and last name (including Pourcelles, Parcellis, Percelles, Perselles).
Life
His father, the captain Jan Pourcelles or Porcellis, was one of many refugees from persecution in the Spanish-occupied Netherlands who settled in Rotterdam.
Porcellis can be traced back to 1605 in Rotterdam, where he married that year. It is possible that he initially worked in Rotterdam in the book illustration for the publisher and engraver Jan van Doetechum, who among other things published engravings of ships and maps and also had connections to London, where Porcellis is also verifiable (one of his daughters was born there before 1615). In 1615 he moved to Antwerp after filing for bankruptcy in Rotterdam. In 1617 he became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp, but continued to have financial problems. In 1618 he was forced to enter into a contract in which he would deliver forty pictures over twenty weeks, with material and an assistant provided. In 1622 he moved to Haarlemand moved to Amsterdam in 1624. In Haarlem he developed his individual style as a marine painter, influenced by representatives of tonal landscape painting such as Jan van Goyen , Salomon van Ruysdael and Pieter de Molyn . Typical of Porcelli's marine paintings are a monochrome palette, the inclusion of the sky in the composition and the reproduction of the interplay of sunlight reflections and cloud shadows.
The artist biographer Arnold Houbraken says he was a student of the famous marine painter Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom in Haarlem, but this is now doubted. Paintings from the 1610s in the Royal Collection that were once considered the earliest paintings by Porcellis are now attributed to Vroom.
In 1626 he lived in Voorburg near The Hague. From around 1628 he lived in Zoeterwoude near Leiden, where he owned extensive property.
In his time, Porcellis was considered an innovative and leading Dutch marine painter. His students included Simon de Vlieger , Willem van Diest , Hendrick van Anthonissen (also his brother-in-law), Hans Goderis and the marine painter and art collector Jan van de Capelle , who had sixteen pictures by Porcellis in his collection. Rembrandt also had paintings of him.
His son Julius Porcellis (born in Rotterdam before 1610, died in Leiden 1645) was also his student as a marine painter, who married a daughter of Jan Steen .
He signed jp or ip, but rarely dated his pictures. About 50 paintings are attributed to him, the earliest from the 1620s.
His paintings are in the Rijksmuseum, the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), the Hermitage, the Mauritshuis (The Hague), the Alte Pinakothek (Munich), the Museum of Fine Arts Bordeaux, Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Courtauld Institute (London) , Bredius Museum and Van der Heydt Museum (Düsseldorf), Royal Collection.
In 1627 he published under the title Icones Variarum Navium Hollandicarum quarum usus maxime in aquis interioribus regionis a collection of various depictions of ships with sizes in loads in print.
literature
- Joseph Edward Wessely: Porcellis, Jan . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 441 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ This is how Constantijn Huygens expressed himself in his autobiography and Samuel Ampzing in his description of Haarlem
- ^ Title copper from Maritiem Digitaal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porcellis, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Porcellis, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch marine painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1582 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1632 |
| Place of death | Zoeterwoude |