Jan Siberechts

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Pasture with a sleeping shepherdess, after 1650
The Ford (ca.1672)
View of a House and its Estate in Belsize , Middlesex (1696)

Jan Siberechts , also Johannes or Jean Sibrechts , Sibrecht , Siebrechts or Sybrecht (born or baptized on January 29, 1627 in Antwerp , † 1703 in London ) was a Flemish landscape painter .

Life

Siberechts was the son of a sculptor of the same name and his wife Suzanna (née Mennens). He was a student of the artist Adriaen de Bye (1593–1668). In 1648 or 1649 he became master of the Guild of Luke in his hometown. His first works date from this time. At first he painted Italian landscapes similar to other “Dutch Italian drivers” such as Jan Both or Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem and probably made a trip to Italy himself around 1650. In the 1660s he switched to depicting Flemish landscapes and rural life. He depicted unusually large (preferably female) figures in a landscape section kept cool in terms of color. A popular motif of his were fords and flooded country roads, crossed by farmers with wagons full of hay or vegetables.

In 1672 Silerechts left Antwerp and went to London. He came there probably at the invitation of the Duke of Buckingham , who had previously seen his pictures in Antwerp and who occupied him with decorating his residence, Cliveden . Silrechts traveled through England and made a name for himself in aristocratic circles with depictions of mansions. Among other things, several views of Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire were commissioned by Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton . He also painted the estates at Longleat (1675), Chevely (1681) and Chatsworth (1694). In addition to building views, he now mostly painted larger sections of the landscape, in a warm shade of brown, often with hunting or rural scenes, individual figures taking up less space than in his earlier works. Siberechts died in London in 1703.

Siberechts was married to Maria Anna (nee Croes) since August 2, 1652. His daughter Frances married the sculptor John Nost , and another daughter worked as a lace maker for the Queen.

Works (selection)

  • Pasture with sleeping shepherdess (after 1650), canvas, 107.3 × 84 cm, Alte Pinakothek
  • De nieuwsgierige koe (1665), oil on canvas, 82 × 95 × 6 cm, Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp)
  • Het wed (1665), oil on canvas, 121.6 × 100.2 cm, Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp)
  • The Ford (ca.1672), oil on canvas, 63.5 × 55.4 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , Madrid
  • Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames (ca.1690), oil on canvas, 81.9 × 102.9 cm (frame 104 × 126.2 × 9.5 cm), Tate Gallery
  • View of a House and its Estate in Belsize , Middlesex (1696), oil on canvas, 107.9 × 139.7 cm, Tate Gallery
  • Pastoral Scene (c. 1667–1668), oil on canvas, 59.1 × 88.7 cm, North Carolina Museum of Art

In 2011 the curator of an exhibition of Dutch drawings in Hamburg discovered, after consulting the RKD , the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie , that a 86.5 × 51.7 cm nature study from the Hamburger Kunsthalle was a preliminary study for a painting by Sibrecht from the year 1772 is.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jan Siberechts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Alfred von Wurzbach : Siberechts. Jan Siberechts or Sibrecht . In: Dutch Artist Lexicon . tape 2 : L-Z . Halm and Goldmann, Vienna / Leipzig 1906, p. 619 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Siberechts. Jan Siberechts . In: Catalog of the Kgl. Older Pinakothek . 11th edition. Bruckmann, Munich 1911, p. 153 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ a b Jan Siberechts or Sibrecht. In: Alfred von Wurzbach: Dutch artist lexicon: with more than 3000 monograms. Volume 2, Vienna 1910.
  4. ↑ Emmanuel Bénézit: Siberechts ou Sibrecht (Jan) . In: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . E. Gründ, Paris 1924, p. 782 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Jan Siberechts museothyssen.org. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ Siberechts, Jan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 579-580 .
  7. ↑ a b Terry Riggs: Jan Siberechts tate.org.uk, October 1997. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ Cattle pasture with a sleeping shepherdess sammlung.pinakothek.de, accessed on April 8, 2020.
  9. ↑ The Ford museothyssen.org. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  10. ^ Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames tate.org.uk. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  11. ↑ View of a House and its Estate in Belsize, Middlesex tate.org.uk. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  12. ^ Pastoral Scene Pastoral Scene. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  13. ↑ New self-confidence through your own treasures. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 5, 2011, p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Siberechts, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sibrecht, Jan; Siberecht, Jan; Sybrecht, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH 1703
Place of death London