Jan Wils (painter)

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Jan Wils (* around 1600 in Amsterdam ; buried October 18, 1666 in Haarlem ; occasionally also called Johannes or Hans ) was a Dutch landscape painter and draftsman from the Dutch Golden Age . He is one of the representatives of the so-called Dutch Italian drivers ("Dutch Italianates") and preferred to paint Italian motifs with shepherds in the tradition of Jan Both .

Life

Jan Wils was the son of Jan Wils Pieterzn van Rousburg and Cuycken Aerts from Den Bosch . Wils became a member of the Haarlem vigilante group in 1628 and was listed in the same year as a member of the St. Luke's Guild ( Sint Lucas Gilde ). In 1629 he married Margrietje Cornelisdr., Who brought a daughter, Catrijne, into the marriage.

In 1634 he was listed in the documents of the Guild of St. Luke as an art dealer and no longer as a painter; it was not until 1661 that he was mentioned again as a painter.

At the advanced age of over 50 he traveled south and stayed in Rome in 1654/55 and then in Vienne . Drawings of Lyon and the surrounding area have survived from this period. His work is comparatively small; which may be related to the fact that he also held the office of beer tax collector for the city of Haarlem and painting was probably just a sideline for him.

Wils wrote his will on October 12, 1666, and was buried six days later.

Wils was Nicolaes Berchem's teacher and father-in-law , whom he had a major influence. Berchem had Wils' stepdaughter Catrijne Claesdr in 1646. de Groot married.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Miedema: De archiefbescheiden van het te Haarlem Guild of St. Luke 1494-1798, Alphen aan den Rijn 1980 . P. 1036
  2. ↑ Miedema, pp. 422 and 1041

literature

  • MEW Goosens: Schilders en de markt, Haarlem 1605–1635. Leiden 2001 (Dutch)
  • George S. Keyes, Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Axel Rüger, and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr .: Masters of Dutch Painting. 2004, The Detroit Institute of Arts, ISBN 1-904832-04-0 (English)
  • Hans-Joachim Raupp (Hrsg.): Landscape and seascapes. ( Dutch painting of the 17th century from the Sør Rusche collection . Volume 3). LIT-Verlag, Münster / Hamburg / London 2001, ISBN 3-8258-2238-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wils, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wils, Johannes; Wils, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch landscape painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH between October 12, 1666 and October 18, 1666